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WING IN CHARGE THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE 
|"i"Hl r TWENTY fOURTH NATIONAL 01WW1ENI 

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 

MELD IN BOSTON FROM AUGU5T II™ To I 6T», I89O, 
PtfESENTo THJ5 50UVENIR, VOLUME 

IN GRATEFUT APPRECIATION OF A55I3TANCE AND 
KINDLY COOPERATION IN MAKINQ THE OCCASION 



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C*~K T a meeting of the executive committee of the National Encampment, 
CpX G. A. R., for 1890, held at the State House, Boston, Dec. 9, 1890, 
it was formally voted: — 



•' That fames F. Meech, Charles Carleton Coffin and Assistant Secretary 
B. X. Adams be appointed a special committee to prepare and issue a souvenir 
volume," the intent of which would he to suitably commemorate the grand 
reunion "I veterans, also tor presentation to persons who had in any manner 
contributed to its success; '•and that the said committee he clothed with full 
powers for the performance ot this duty." 

In accordance with the foregoing vote, this souvenir history of the 
Twenty-fourth National Encampment, G. A. R., held in Boston, Aug. 11 to 
i'i, 1 S90, from its inception to its close, has been prepared and is herewith 
submitted. 

In the preparation of this volume, indebtedness for valuable data and 
favors is gratefully acknowledged to the Boston daily newspapers, Beath's 
History of the G. A. R., Comrade R. W. Gilder, editor of the Century 
Mi i/ine, and to many citizens and comrades of the Grand Army and 
members of the Woman's Relief Corps. 

James F. Meech, j 

Chari.es Carleton Coffin, j Souvenir Committee. 
Benj. N. Adams, 



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To the [Memory of Charles 'Devens. 




Revolution. 



O NAME can be more fittingly held in remembrance 
by those who participated in the National Encampment 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Boston, 
August, 1890, than that of Charles Devens, citizen, 
soldier, jurist, patriot, who closed his earthly life Jan. 
7, 1 891. His grandfather, Richard Devens, was con- 
spicuous for his patriotism at the outbreak of the 
He was selected by his fellow-citizens as one of the committee 
of safety, to provide arms and ammunition for the patriots of 1775. On the 
evening preceding the battle of Bunker Hill, after the departure of the 
troops under Prescott from Cambridge, with true military foresight he went 
to Gen. Ward, in command of the Americans, and urged that Stark's and 
Reed's regiments of New Hampshire troops at Medford be ordered to the 
support of Prescott. Gen. Ward was reluctant to issue the order; but 
through the persistent efforts of Devens and others it was finally given on 
the morning of the seventeenth of June, but it did not reach Stark till 
nearly noon. 

The world is greatly indebted to Richard Devens for this forecasting 
of the needs of the hour : for had not those regiments been at the rail fence 
on Bunker Hill, it is altogether probable that Prescott's force would have 
been overwhelmed at the beginning of the battle. 

Charles Devens, the grandson, was born in Charlestown, April 4, 1820. 
He was so studious during his early school days that at the age of 14 he 
was admitted to Harvard College, graduating in 1838, supplementing his 
collegiate studies with a course in the law school. At the age of 21 he was 
a member of the Franklin County bar, establishing his office at Greenfield, 



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and subsequently at Deerfield. He was elected to the Massachusetts Senate 
in [848-49, and subsequently received the appointment of United States 
Marshal for the district of Massachusetts. It was a period of great political 
agitation. Texas had been annexed to extend the area of slavery, followed 
by the war with Mexico and the wresting from a sister republic California 
and a vast area of the central portion of the continent. Then came the 
discovery of gold on the Sacramento and the rush of emigration to the 
Pacific coast — the foundation of a state which was seeking admission to 
the Union. A few months after the appointment of Gen. Devens came 
the compromise of 1850, brought about by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, 
including the passage of the law for the return of slaves fleeing from their 
masters to free states — a law cruel in its provisions and repugnant to the 
moral sense of the great majority of the people of the Northern states. It 
was passed as a measure calculated to save the Union from dissolution. It 
was repulsive to Gen. Devens ; but, being Marshal of the United States, it 
became his duty as an official to aid in returning fugitive slaves. He was 
severely censured for his official actions, by those who believed in the 
immediate and unconditional abolition of slavery, for enforcing the law — the 
return of Thomas Sims to his master. In the light of his subsequent 
conduct it will be seen that he acted conscientiously as an officer of the 
Government in doing a disagreeable duty. So odious was the law to all his 
instincts that he resigned and instituted proceedings for the purchase of 
Sims from his master, that he might give him his freedom, offering to pay 
any reasonable amount. This offer was refused by the owner of Sims, who 
seemingly held the slave to exhibit to the Northern people the superiority 
of the slave-holding aristocracy in the affairs of the nation. A woman of 
philanthropic instinct, Lydia Maria Child, started a subscription for the 
purchase of the slave, the master finally consenting to accept Si, 800; where- 
upon Charles Devens wrote to her, saying : — 

" I have heard that you are trying to raise enough money to reclaim 
Thomas Sims from slavery. If you have received any contributions, please 
return them to the donors, as I wish to contribute the entire sum myself." 

The negotiation was cut short by the outbreak of the war; and Thomas 



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Sims finally became free by the edict of Abraham Lincoln. When the flag 
of the Union was once more waving as the emblem of authority everywhere 
throughout the republic, and the great armies which had redeemed the land 
from slavery had melted away, Charles Uevens, bearing wounds received in 
battle, gave $100 to Sims that he might start in life as a free citizen. 
On what historic page shall we find a more chivalrous act ? 

He was following his profession in the city of Worcester, when the flag 
was humiliated at Sumter on the evening of April 15, 1861. Two days later 
he was major of a battalion of soldiers consisting of three companies. On 
the following Sunday he was marching down Broadway, New York, to take 
a steamer for Baltimore. In July he received the appointment as colonel of 
the Massachusetts Fifteenth Regiment, raised in Worcester County, and was 
ordered to Poolsville, Md. The movement across the Potomac to Ball's 
Bluff, Oct. 21, was made against his judgment. When Col. Baker fell, 
Col. Cogswell succeeded to the command and ordered a retreat, a move- 
ment that was against Col. Devens' judgment. " I do not wish to retreat. 
Do you issue it as an order?" he asked. "I do." "I would like to have 
you repeat it in the presence of others." Col. Cogswell repeated the 
order, and the retreat was made with great steadiness to the bank of the 
river. " Every man must care for himself," said Col. Devens. He threw 
his sword into the Potomac, divested himself of his coat, plunged into the 
stream and swam to the Maryland shore. More than one-half of the regi- 
ment was lost in the disastrous affair. 

It may be questioned whether any regimental commander from Massa- 
chusetts or any other state was more beloved by his men than he. His 
consideration for their welfare, his wise discretion, coolness, bravery and 
power to inspire men to noble deeds, won their confidence and admiration, 
and also the confidence of the Government to such a degree that he was 
appointed brigadier-general March 31, 1862, and assigned to Gen. McClellan's 
army. In the movement up the Peninsula he took part in the battle of 
Williamsburg, also Seven Pines, and all the engagements participated in by 
the corps under the command of Gen. Keys. In the battle of Fair Oaks 
his horse was shot under him ami he himself was wounded in the leg, the 



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bullet splintering the bone and lodging in one of the muscles, where it 
remained through life. Although suffering severely he refused to leave his 
command, and remained to take part in the movement from Alexandria to 
Chantilly. In the reorganization of the army he was assigned to the corps 
commanded by Gen. Couch, arriving at Antietam at the close of the first 
day's engagement. While reconnoitring the enemy a few days later, his 
horse was shot beneath him by .1 Confederate picket. 

In political affairs Gen. Devens had been conservative, and was nom- 
inated by the Democratic party as a candidate for Governor. He took 
little interest in the campaign, as the re-election of Gov. Andrew was a 
foregone conclusion. The contest, if it could be called a contest, was 
friendly, and there was no interruption of kindly personal relations. 

In the spring of 1863 he was assigned to the command of a division in 
the Eleventh Corps, and held with great persistence the right of the line in 
the battle of Chancellorsville. In this engagement, out of four thousand 
men composing the division, more than sixteen hundred were killed or 
wounded. He himself received a severe wound in one of his feet, but would 
not leave the held until the final retreat of the entire corps. He was carried 
to one oi the hospitals in Washington. The severity of the wound was such 
it was feared that amputation must follow. He received a visit from President 
Lincoln, who expressed his gratitude for his conduct in holding the Confed- 
erates at bay at a critical moment in the battle of Chancellorsville. A draft 
having been ordered, anil his wound not permitting him to return to his 
division, he was sent to Massachusetts to carry out the orders of the Presi- 
dent. His patriotic fervor had great influence in inducing young men to 
volunteer, instead of waiting for the draft. In an address to his fellow- 
citizens of Worcester, he said: — 

"I trust, young men, you will do your duty and not have it hereafter 
to say, 'I was young ami strong, but left the army to fight without my 
help.' Tender the reproach of the French king to a tardy officer: 'Ah, 
Creillon! what a brave day we had yesterday, and you were not there!' 
Look to it that even a reproach like that be not laid to your charge." 

At the opening of the campaign of 1864 he was assigned to the 



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Eighteenth Corps by the request of Gen. W. F. Smith, commanding the 
same, and was in the engagements fought by the Army of the James, 
around Richmond, taking conspicuous part in the battle of Cold Harbor. 
The hardships of the campaign — his exposure while sleeping on the ground 
— resulted in a rheumatic fever and confinement in the hospital. Upon recov- 
ering health, he returned to the army, and entered Richmond with his 
division upon the morning of its evacuation by the Confederates. He 
received warm recommendation from Gen. Grant for a commission as major- 
general, which was conferred by President Lincoln. 

Upon the disbanding of the army, Gen. Devens was appointed com- 
mander of the military division of North Virginia, with headquarters at 
Fredericksburg, and subsequently was transferred to Charleston, South 
Carolina, where martial law was in force, and where his firm, fair, impartial, 
kind administration won the respect of those who had been most bitterly 
hostile, as well as those who were less implacable. 

Desiring to return to civil life, he was mustered out of service in 1866, 
and resumed the practice of law in Worcester, Massachusetts. A few months 
later he was appointed a judge of the Superior Court, and in 1873 was 
elevated to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Upon the election of 
President Hayes, he accepted the office of Attorney-General of the United 
States. Intricate questions of law and equity, growing out of the war and 
the elevation of the former slaves to citizenship, came up for adjudication, 
requiring the highest order of legal acumen. The duties of his office were 
discharged with signal ability. 

Upon his retirement from that position, he was once more restored to 
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, which position he occupied when his 
earthly labors ended. 

His comrades-in-arms had recognized his worth by choosing him Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, holding the exalted 
position two years. He was also honored by election as President of the 
Society of the Army of the Potomac. He has been one of the prominent 
members of the Loyal Legion. Upon the centennial anniversary of the 
battle of Bunker Hill, he was the orator of the occasion, and gave a 
scholarly address, glowing with patriotic fervor. 

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He rounded the years allotted to man. What John Milton claimed for 
himself in reviewing his life, Charles Devens might have truthfully said of 
his own conduct of life: "I am not one who has disgraced beauty of 
sentiment bv deformity of conduct, or the maxims of a freeman by the 
actions of a slave; but, by the grace of God, I have kept my life unsullied." 
He was ever animated by a lofty ideal, and true to his convictions of right 
ami duty. 

The comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic will ever honor his 
memory. The Commonwealth which gave him birth will claim him as one 
of her illustrious sons. The tribute which Whittier has given to Charles 
Sumner is equally appropriate to the memory of Charles Devens: — 

"Long shall the good State's annals tell, 

Her children's children long be taught 
How. praised or blamed, he guarded well 

The trust he neither shunned nor sought. 

"The lifted sword above tier shield 

With jealous care shall guard his tame: 
The pine tree on her ancient field 

To all the winds shall speak his name." 

Charles Carletox Coffin. 






RUSSELL A. ALGER, 

Commander-in-Chief, G. A. R., 1890. 



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1IUNDERED the guns of the Southland, under the Stars and 
the Bars; 
Thundered the guns of the Northland, under the Stripes and 

the Stars ; 
Deep hung the smoke of the conflict, pall-like, on hill and 

plain ; 
Death-laden missiles of carnage fell like the fall of the rain. 
There, like a wall adamantine, shoulder to shoulder thev stand, 
Under the banner of freedom — under the flag of our land. 
There, 'mid the smoke of the battle; there, where the cannon-shot fell; 
There, 'mill the •singing' of bullets ; there, 'mid the bursting of shell; 
There, 'mid the conflict's wild horrors; there, in the war-demon's breath; 
There, in the hell of the slaughter; there in the face of grim death — 
Friendships that time cannot sever, mystic and blood-stained the tie; 
'Friendships were formed an,/ cemented— friendships that never can die." 



Not only does this brotherhood include the veteran who served his 
country as a private soldier, but the highest in the land of those who went 
to the war. The question of army rank, or civil or social position of its 
members, creates no dividing lines between them. There are no prefer- 
ments, "no cold reserve" — all meet in its councils on a common level; 
shoulder to shoulder march the former private and commanding general. 
The President of the United States is an untitled comrade in its ranks. 
Men prominent in the nation's councils and history, eminent jurists, scholars 
in every department of learning, churchmen and ministers of Christ, glory 
in the fact that they are entitled to wear its badge of distinction and 
honor. The title to membership is the blood-stained one given to the 
soldiers and sailors who fought for the Union in its struggle for existence 



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when assailed by trail aids and the misguided South in '6i. Into its 

mystic circle no man can enter who docs not possess this precious inheri- 
In the words oi Pasl Commander-in-Chief Ceo. S. Merrill: "No 
child can be horn into it; no proclamation of president, edict of king, or 
ukase of czar can command admission ; no university or institution of learning 
can issue a diploma authorizing its holder to entrance; no act of congress 
or parliament secures recognition ; the wealth of a Vanderbilt cannot purchase 
the position; its doors swing open only on presentation oi the bit of paper 
torn, worn, begrimed it maj be —which certifies to an honorable discharge 
from the armies or navies of the nation during the wai against rebellion. 
And, unlike any other association, no new blood can come in; there are no 
growing ranks from which recruits can he drawn into the Grand Army of 
the Republic. With the consummation of peace through victory, its rolls 
were closed forevei 

Is not this privilege too lightly esteemed by many, both in the Grand 
Army and those not yet mustered in, whose right it is to own and enjoy it? 
Upon such may be urged a closer relationship to this grand brotherhood 
and the putting forth of more earnest endeavors lor the furtherance of its 
noble objects, and, in view of the brief period remaining to its existence, 
the practice more than ever of a comradeship warm in fraternities, sweet in 
charities and loyal in friendships. 

I he gathering in Boston of this vast veteran army renders appropriate 
here the mention of its most prominent historical features and purposes. 
Hut few, comparatively, outside the fraternity are familiar with the circum- 
stances (aside from the one great factor — the war itself) which gave it birth 
and produced its phenomenal early growth, which brought about its subse- 
quent years of depression and decline to almost utter extinction, and its 
later revival and rapid, uninterrupted progress on to its present prominent 

' ion. 

With the view oi stimulating renewed interest in its annals amongst com- 
rades and all others, and of creating an increased interest for and in support 
oi its work, the following outline history and objects of the Grand Army 
an- given : — 



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Its real founders were Maj. B. F. Stephenson and Chaplain W. J. Rutledge, 
officers of the Fourteenth Illinois Infantry. As early as February, 1864, 
while they were tent-mates and companions in Sherman's expedition to 
Meridian, Miss., they conceived the idea of this grand association of veterans. 
While upon the march, the subject of such an organization was the absorbing 
theme of their conversation, and they pledged each other that at the close 
of the war, if spared, they would form a brotherhood of comrades, whose 
object would be the preservation of the friendships and associations of the 
war, formed and made strong and enduring by the touch of elbows and 
hearts and the privations and dangers they had suffered together in the 
great conflict. After they were mustered out of service, — the subject ever 
an inspiration to them, — they corresponded upon the matter until March, 1866, 
when a conference was brought about in Springfield, 111., which resulted in 
the formation of the Order. The following persons were present on that 
occasion : — 

Col. John M. Snyder, Dr. James Hamilton, Maj. Robert M. Woods, 
Maj. Robert Allen, Chaplain William J. Rutledge, Col. Martin Flood, Col. 
Daniel Grass, Col. Edward Prince, Capt. John S. Phelps, Capt. John A. 
Lightfoot, Capt. B. F. Smith, Brev.-Maj. A. A. North, Capt. Henry E. Howe 
and Lieut. B. F. Hawkes. 

The first Grand Army Post was organized in Decatur, 111., on the sixth 
day of April, 1866, Maj. B. F. Stephenson, Department Commander, with 
a charter membership of twelve persons, whose names are here appended: — 

Col. I. C. Pugh, Lieut. Jos. M. Prior, I. N. Coltrin, M. F. Kanan, George 
R. Steele, Dr. B. F. Sibley, J. T. Bishop, J. W. Routh, John H. Nale, 
George H. Dunning, C. Riebsame and I. A. Toland. 

To this Post was given the title of "Post of Honor" as Decatur Encamp- 
ment No. 1. From this beginning has grown the present magnificent insti- 
tution. When its founders conceived the idea that the banding together of 
the veterans of the civil war, for their common welfare and interest, would 
prove popular and beneficial to them, the present magnitude of the Grand 
Army and the great results it has accomplished were probably not even 
imagined as possibilities ; though it is stated that, as they talked together on 



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the march or in the bivouac, this thought extended into the widest fields of 

conjecture as to the probable g I that would be accomplished from such an 

association. Antedating its formation, various corps, division, brigade and 
regimental societies were created, some of them during the war and as early 
as [862, purely for the purpose oi continuing, after its close, the social ties 
that had been formed within their own commands dining the service. These 
societies, doubtless, furnished an inspiration and were accessory to the 
founding of the Grand Army of the Republic. Main' have existed to the 
present day, holding annual reunions which are occasions of social pleasure. 
That they have been productive of great good to their members, materially 
and otherwise, is apparent; but nearly all are comrades of the Grand Army. 
These smaller societies have served the purposes for which they were insti- 
tuted, but the}- fall short oi the broad scope and objects of the larger organi- 
zation, though assisting in its work. Many other soldier and sailor associations 
were organized after the close of the war, mainly political in their character, 
tor the avowed purpose oi protecting and advancing the veterans' interests 
during the reconstruction period, when partisan politics and preferments 
agitated the country. Such societies were termed "The Boys in Blue," 
" Soldiers' and Sailors' League," "White Boys in Blue," " Conservative Army 
and Navy Union," "Colored Soldiers' League," etc. They were dissolved 
when there seemed to be no further need of their continuance. Were they 
ever required 5 Whatever good they accomplished, — and it is questionable 
whether they did not harm, rather than assist, the veterans, — it had been 
better for the Grand Army ot the Republic had they never existed : for 
they were merged in the Grand .Army, ami into it were intruded their 
political biases and disputes, which proved baleful and fatal in their influence 
and effect, nearly causing its disruption. By subsequent additions to its rules 
and regulations, the Grand Army abolished from its deliberations all questions 
ot a political nature, lint the trouble they had occasioned in the past could 
not be readily forgotten 1101- overcome. The people, suspicious of a secret 
society that had attempted the moulding of the national polity ami had 
divided into tactions opposing each other, held aloof from ami discounte- 
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Grand Army of today, as its constitute m and principles declare, is non-partisan 
in politics and unsectarian in religion. 

At the Springfield Convention, held in June, 1866, the following resolu- 
tions were adopted : — 

" Resolved, That we, the soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic, recognizing the 
power of the principles of association, do hereby pledge ourselves, each to the other, to 
render all material aid and assistance in supplying the wants of the widow and the fatherless, 
and in furnishing employment to the poor and to those wounded and disabled in the service 
of our country. 

■'Resolved, That as we have stood by the government at the peril of our lives in war. 
so will we make it ever our care that no known enemy of our country shall wield power 
in the republic; but the same arms which defended its sanctuary against open violence will 
protect it unflinchingly against all secret machinations, and never lay down our weapons 
until peace, based on the principles of universal liberty, shall be assured. 

"Resolved, That treason consummated in rebellion is a crime of the most malignant 
nature, and every possible guarantee should be demanded of all branches of the government 
against the rash admission to place and power of those who were active participants in 
rebellion, and thereby forfeited the rights of American citizens; and that we, the soldiers of 
the nation, who fought for supremacy of the national authority, have a right to demand that 
the safety of the republic should be held paramount to all other considerations by the 
executive and congress." 

In May following the organization of Decatur Post, the constitution 
and declaration of principles of the Order were devised and printed. 
Additions were made in 1868-69, an ^ the following is their complete text 
at that time : — 

Constitution and TDtrlaration of Principles of 
■ ■ ■ the Grand Army of the ^Republic . . . 



Section i. The soldiers of the Volunteer Army of the United States 
during the rebellion in 1861-65, actuated by the impulses and convictions 
of patriotism and of eternal right, and combined in the strong bands of 
friendship and unity by the toils, the dangers and the victories of a long and 
vigorously waged war, feel themselves called upon to declare, in definite 
form of words and in determined co-operative action, those principles and 



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rule- which should guide the earnest patriot, the enlightened freeman and 
the Christian citizen in his course of action ; and to agree upon those plans 
and laws which should govern them in a united and systematic working 
method with which, in some measure, shall be effected the preservation of 
the grand results of the war, the fruits of their labor and toil, so as to 
benefit the deserving and worthy. 

Sect. 2. The results which are designed to be accomplished by this 
organization are as follows: — 

1. The preservation of those kind and fraternal feelings which have 
bound together, with the strong cords of love and affection, the comrades- 
in-arms of many battles, sieges and marches. 

2. To make these ties available in works and results of kindness, of 
favor and material aid to those in need oi assistance. 

3. To make provision, where it is not already done, for the support, 
care and education of soldiers' orphans, and for the maintenance of the widows 
of deceased soldiers. 

4. For the protection and assistance of disabled soldiers and sailors, 
whether disabled by wounds, sickness, old age or misfortune. 

5. For the establishment and defense of the late soldier}- of the United 
States, morally, socially and politically, with a view to inculcate a proper 
appreciation of their services to the country, and to a recognition ot such 
services and claims by the American people. To this section was added in 
[868: — 

"But this Association does not design to make nominations for office 
or to use its influence as a secret organization for partisan purposes." 

6. The maintenance of true allegiance to the United States of America, 
based upon paramount respect for, and fidelity to, the national constitution 
and laws, manifested by the discountenancing of whatever may tend to weaken 
loyalty, incite to insurrection, treason or rebellion, or in any manner impairs 
the efficiency and permanency of our free institutions, together with a defense 
of universal liberty, equal rights and justice to all men. 



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In 1S69 the following article was added to the rules and regulations: — 

" No officer or comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic shall, in 
any manner, use this organization for partisan purposes, and no discussion 
of partisan questions shall be permitted at any of its meetings, nor shall any 
nomination for political office be made." 

Such were the declared principles and laws of government of the noblest 
association of soldiers and sailors ever formed, and which has united 
in lasting friendship nearly half a million veterans of the Civil War — an 
organization which disburses annually in charitable works hundreds of 
thousands of dollars, and "labors without distinction of party or creed, rank 
or color, and very largely for those who have remained outside of it and 
have contributed nothing for its support." 

Through the National Encampments, various modifications of the above 
quoted declaration of principles have since been made, but the spirit and 
intent of them, as originally devised, remain essentially the same. 

Its growth until the year 1868 was magical. In that year the membership 
in the whole country reached, it is stated, 240,000. Then came the blighting 
effects of internal dissensions caused by inherent defects in the organization 
and the ambitions of its political factions, which sapped its life-blood and 
nearly ended its existence. In 1871 it reached its lowest level, declining to 
a membership of only 30,024. During that year Comrade Stephenson died, 
having failed to realize most of the fond hopes he had cherished for the 
Grand Army and the fruitage of years of devoted effort in its behalf. 

"In his own state" (Illinois, as stated in Beath's History), "though the 
department maintained a nominal existence, there was hardly a Post in active 
operation. In neighboring states they were entirely dead ; and while depart- 
ment organizations were maintained in the East, even Posts had disbanded 
by the score. He had dreamed of a grand organization of veterans moving 
en masse: a potent influence in fostering and moulding public sentiment in 
favor of those who had borne the battle ; that should secure recognition of 
their services in places of honor and profit ; and, while preserving and 
strengthening the bonds of comradeship, should be a help to all who had 



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followed the flag, and to the widows and orphans of the dead who needed 
a helping hand and sympathizing friend." 

"Years were to pass before the Grand Army of the Republic should 
reach the position in any degree fulfilling the fondly cherished belief of its 
founder, — years that were to test the faith and constancy of the few, and 
show the weakness of the many, who had failed to comprehend the principles 
of the Order, and measure those only by personal desires as a means for 
their own advancement." 

At the re-interment, in iSSj, of the remains of Comrade Stephenson, under 
the ritualistic ceremonies of the Grand Army of the Republic, the following 
eulogy was delivered by Judge James A. Matheney of Springfield, 111., which 
will reveal the nobleness of Comrade Stephenson's character and his exalted 
purposes tor the happiness and welfare of his soldier brethren: — 

" I am here today with the single purpose of laying a sprig ot ' immor- 
telle ' upon the grave of our departed comrade. He was the companion of 
my youth, the friend of my manhood. Together we commenced to climb 
life's upward pathway ; but ere we reached the summit he, wearying of the 
burden, laid himself down to rest. 

"As we buried our comrade, the grave covered more than his pulseless 
form — glad hopes that made bright the future, grand thoughts that would 
have left their impress on the minds of men, great purposes to be achieved, 
a lofty ambition to be realized : these, all these, we buried with him. 

"The world is full of over-estimated men. The graveyard is peopled 
with under-estimated men. It is the misfortune of our comrade to be num- 
bered with the latter. Thousands infinitely his inferior have written their 
names in imperishable characters on the pages of our country's history. 
Struggle as he did, and labor as he might, no compensating reward ever 
came. When abundant success seemed assured and he stretched forth his 
hand to seize the coveted fruit, he grasped only 'Dead Sea apples' of ashes 
and bitterness. 

"I do not know th.it any marble shaft will ever tower aloft over the 
spot where sleeps our comrade and friend : but I do know that he built tor 
himself a monument more glorious than marble or granite ; and yet that 



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unrelenting fate that ever pursued him, robbing him of well-nigh all that 
was justly his due, is still at its relentless work. The thousands who annually 
meet at the reunions of the Grand Army of the Republic give no thought 
to the heart that nurtured, and to the brain that conceived, the grand idea 
of a brotherhood of soldiers. 

"When this thought first came to our comrade his whole soul was filled 
with the noble conception. Without rest or weariness, his every energy was 
devoted to the accomplishment of the grand design. With a patriotic inspira- 
tion, he saw clearly the great good to be attained. He felt that he was 
erecting an altar upon which the fire of love for the whole Union would 
burn, and burn forever. He saw with prophetic vision the star spangled 
banner of a nation, — not a confederation of discordant states, but a nation's 
banner unfurled to the breeze, — and with fancy's ear he heard the tramp 
of the million soldiers of the Grand Army, as they gathered beneath it to 
shield and defend it from every harm. 

" My friends, how well he read the future ! His glad anticipations are 
more than realized. The camp-fires of the Grand Army are burning from 
ocean to ocean. Thousands and tens of thousands of his brotherhood of 
soldiers meet nightly in fraternal greetings. The banner that he so loved 
is floating stainless and pure in God's bright sunshine, never again to be 
soiled and torn by traitorous hands. 

"Though not here to witness it, the grand dream of his life has assumed 
the proportions of a bright reality. The note that he struck, single-handed 
and alone, has swelled into a glorious anthem. The light that he kindled 
is illuminating an entire land, and, at the last, is flinging its radiance over 
the consecrated spot where our comrade reposes, all unconscious that his 
hour of triumph has come. 

"The law of compensation pervades all nature. A new thought pro- 
claimed, a good deed done, or a heroic act performed, will, sooner or later, 
meet its proper reward. It may tarry long — it may linger in its coming; 
but it will come, with unfailing certainty. 

" In obedience to that law we have come, even at this late day, to do 
honor to our departed comrade. And, friends, let it not stop here. Let us 



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by siime fitting testimonial proclaim to all coming time our appreciation of 
the grand work accomplished by our departed friend and companion. Let us 

' Seek no further his merits to disclose, 

Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode. 
There they alike in trembling hope repose : 
The bosom of his Father and his God.'" 

There were but few additions to the Grand Army from 1874 to 1878. 
Up tn the latter year it had gained only 992 members, having at that time 
a roll of 31,016 ; but from that date it took on a new existence. The mistakes 
of the past had been corrected, and a re-organization effected on a right 
basis. The Order sprang again into most vigorous life, and extended into 
nearly every state and territory in the Union. Its influence for good kept 
pace with its growth. 

On the thirty-first day of March, 1890, the membership by departments 
is shown on the following list, anil the total in good standing — 393,893. 



DEPARTMENTS. 

Alabama 

Arizona 

Arkansas .... 
California .... 
Colorado and Wyoming 
Connecticut .... 
Delaware .... 

Florida 

Georgia 

Idaho 

Illinois 

Indiana 

Iowa 

Kansas 

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NUMBER OF 


MEMBERS IN 


POSTS. 


GOOD STANDING. 


I 2 


-77 


8 


30S 


66 


'•749 


!'! 


6,173 


76 


2.S-JO 


S 4 


6,740 


20 


1. 166 


18 


385 


9 


386 


'7 


446 


590 


32.3 J 5 


5 '5 


^5-043 


4^9 


20. 38 1 


1*1 


iS,445 



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DEPARTMENTS. 

Kentucky 

Louisiana and Mississ 

Maine 

Massachusetts 

Maryland 

Michigan 

Minnesota 

Missouri . 

Montana . 

Nebraska 

New Hampshir 

New Jersey . 

New Mexico 

New York . 

North Dakota 

Ohio . . . 

Oregon . 

Pennsylvania 

Potomac . 

Rhode Island 

South Dakota 

Tennessee 

Texas . 

Utah . . 

Vermont . 

Virginia . 

Washington and Alas 

West Virginia 

Wisconsin 

Total 



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Nl/MBER OF 


MEMBERS IN 


POSTS. 


GOOD STANDING 


H5 


5,528 


'7 


1 ,242 


155 


9>35 : 


199 


21,742 


4 2 


2,200 


39o 


20,731 


178 


7-37 


4 2 3 


[9,725 


[ 9 


67. 


279 


7,666 


90 


4>975 


113 


7-759 


10 


33 > 


638 


3 S -9 S 5 


3 2 


77S 


711 


46,672 


47 


1,666 


595 


44- 6l 3 


T 1 

1 .1 


3-047 


21 


2,722 


■4 


394 


7' 


3>'7 ! 


■t y 


813 


3 


138 


103 


5,164 


37 


1,215 


5 3 


1 ,894 


93 


2.99S 


264 


13,781 



7,22s 393> 8 93 



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In Commander-in-Chief Alger's report to the Encampment, it is found 
that on June 30, 1890, the total membership was 458,230. That there will 
be much further increase in its numbers is doubtful, though there are many 
thousands not vet mustered in. Great efforts are constantly being made to 
induce those who have held aloof from the fraternity to join their comrades 
in the Order. The average age at death of the veterans is fifty-six, and, as 
few remain who are under fifty, it is apparent that the Grand Army has 
reached its maximum strength. Over fifty-six hundred comrades died last 
year, and the death ratio is ever increasing. Swiftly have fled the years 
intervening since the close of the war, and it is not a long look down the 
vista of the future to the ultimate extinction of the Grand Army of the 
Republic. It is painful to reflect that ere long only memories of its existence 
will remain ; but these can never the. On the pages of history the heroic 
acts of its members and their usefulness and beneficence will ever shine 
with unfading lustre. They were zealous and faithful in war; and now their 
peaceful mission of Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty will only cease when 
the last veteran shall have passed away from earth to join his comrades 
in the grand reunion in the fair, Eternal City. 

"There, on that beautiful shore, 
Comrades are forming to welcome, 
Comrades who have sjone before." 








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HE First National Meeting of the Grand Army was 
held at Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20, 1866, when 
Stephen A. Hurlburt was chosen Commander-in Chief. 
It was there that the National organization was 
formally effected and its work and duties outlined. 
The original idea of such a gathering was nothing more 
than that of a convention of Department representatives, 
chosen by Posts, to make the necessary governing laws which 
experience and observation had taught the comrades were necessary for the 
growth, prosperity and the furtherance of the benevolent work of the 
society. But gradually it was taken advantage of as an occasion for 
reunions of veterans who, in the resumption of peaceful pursuits, had 
become widely scattered. 

Naturally, with the increasing strength of the Order, these reunions grew 
in popularity, and a National Encampment was looked forward to with a joyful 
anticipation and interest which cannot be understood or appreciated by those 
who are not members of this fraternity of citizen soldiers: until today an 
occasion like this not only means a convention of Grand Army delegates, but 
the massing of veterans from every portion of the country, and the holding 
of camp-fires, reunions, banquets, receptions, excursions and whatever pleasure 
can be had from social intercourse. It is now recognized as one of the great 
factors for keeping up an active interest in the organization and the binding 
together in stronger ties those who responded to the call of an imperiled 
country. 



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When the city of Boston and the Department of Massachusetts, G. A. R., 
formally invited the Encampment at Milwaukee, in 1SS9, to hold its iSgo 
session at the " Hub," the acceptance of the invitation met with general 
approval, not only with the delegates, but also with the rank and file of the 
Grand Army. There were special reasons why the reunion in Boston was 
desirable. Many of the comrades in the central and western sections of the 
United States could claim New- England either as their birthplace or that 
of their fathers or mothers, and their coming to New England would be to 
them the return to the home of their childhood. 

Boston, with its traditions and historical landmarks ; Plymouth Rock ; 
Bunker 1 1 ill; the scenes of the Indian and Revolutionary wars ; its fame for 
hospitality ; and last, but not least, a love and appreciation of the veterans 
— all combined to give an assurance of a most successful Encampment, and 
one which would surpass all others held in the past. 

It was the second meeting of the National Encampment in Boston, 
the first having been held during the administration of John A. Logan, in 
May, 1 87 1. At that time Lucius Fairchild was the Senior Vice-Command er- 
in-Chief, and Louis Wagner, Junior Yice-Commander-in-Chief, both of whom 
afterward filled the position of Commander-in-Chief. It met in John A. 
Andrew Hall ; and the entire entertainment consisted of only a banquet in 
Faneuil Hall, a visit to Bunker Hill Monument and an inspection of the 
forts in the harbor. 

It was very unlike the Encampment of 1S90: for that of 1S71 was at 
the darkest period in the history of the Grand Army, while that of 1890 
was held when it was at the zenith of its power and influence throughout 
the country. 

The fame of the Twenty-fourth National Encampment has been on every 
tongue. It has been told at every camp-fire and in every Post-room from 
Maine to California, and rehearsed to every veteran and civilian who was 
prevented by business cares or cause of any kind from participating in the 
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It is to be hoped that the great patriotic and enthusiastic display, so 
perfectly arranged and carried out, will prove a potent educator to the young 
and rising generation ; and that those of maturer years who hitherto have, 
perhaps, looked coldly upon the Grand Army of the Republic, will now 
appreciate, as never before, the priceless services and sacrifices these veterans 
of the Civil War gave to the nation when it was in peril ; and that their 
hearts will ever glow with increased love of country and pride in its banner 
of beauty and glory. 




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ROM the first suggestion that Boston should have the 
National Encampment of 1890 held within its borders, 
the idea gained strength day by day. It was talked 
among the citizens, among the Grand Army Posts 
and in the state and city governments, until it assumed 
the proportions of a genuine Massachusetts ambition. 
At the Twenty-second Annual Convention of the Depart- 
ment of Massachusetts, Grand Army of the Republic, 
field in Boston, Feb. 12, [889, on the motion of Com- 
rade Charles O. Fellows of Post 35, it was voted: — 



"That the delegates from this Department to the next National 

Encampment he instructed to extend the hospitalities of this Department 

and to invite the National Encampment to hold the Convention of [890 in 
Boston." 

Nothing more could be done until the gathering at Milwaukee in 1889. 
On the afternoon of the first day's session of that bod)' the motion was made 
to proceed to the selection of the place for holding the next annual session. 
Comrade Palmer of New York made an argument in favor of Saratoga ; 
Comrade Burdette of the Department of the Potomac then described the 
charms of Washington ; and he was followed by Comrade Travis of Indiana, 
who brought forward the claims of Indianapolis. 

Comrade Goodale of Massachusetts then arose and spoke as follows: — 



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GEORGE L. GOODALE. 

Chairman Executive Committee. 
Commander Department Mass., G. A. R., 1889. 



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" Commander-in-Chief and Comrades: It becomes my pleasant privilege 
to speak to you today for the comrades of a far distant state, that state on 
whose shores first landed that 

' Band of heroes, sage and martyr, 
Who, in the Mayflower cabin, signed the first New England charter;' 

a state whose people have ever stood first and foremost in every forward 
movement in the cause of liberty; a state whose proud record it is that 
she has done more for her soldiers and their dependents than all the other 
Northern states combined; a state of whom her sons are justly proud — 
proud of her in times of peace as well as in times of war — proud of her 
statesmen as well as her gallant soldier boys ; a state to whom her veterans 
never appeal in vain. 

" Yes, comrades, we, the boys of the old Bay State, are proud of our 
grand commonwealth, and we are so proud of her that we wish to welcome 
within the borders of our little state our comrades from all the other Depart- 
ments. Let them see for themselves Massachusetts and her loyal people ; 
let them learn from experience how cordial are our greetings, how boundless 
our hospitality. 

"At the last Encampment it was unanimously voted that the hospitalities 
of the Department be extended to the National Encampment ; that it be 
invited to hold its session in 1890 in the city of Boston. And now, in 
behalf of my comrades, I invite you from the golden shores of the Pacific ; 
you from the broad prairies of the West, and from the mountain sides of 
the Rockies ; you from the sunny fields and savannas of the South ; you from 
the busy life of the Middle States, and you from the sister states of our 
own New England, to all come to us, and, within the good old city of 
Boston, hold your next National Encampment. 

" It has been many years since we had the pleasure of welcoming you 
within our borders ; and, since the last Encampment was held in Spring- 
field, we have grown from a small Department with a few thousand members 
into a grand and prosperous Department numbering nearly 22,000 comrades. 



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"Not .mly for the Grand Army of the Republic, but for the people of 
our eity and state, who will he glad to welcome you and make your stay 
with us pleasant, do 1 speak. In this connection allow me to read a letter 
from the acting Governor (if the state, lion. J. Q. A. Brackett. 

Boston, M iss., Aug. 25, 1S89. 
Mr. George L. Goodai i 

Department Commander Massachusetts, G. A. R. 

\h Dear Sir: In response to your request for my views upon the proposition to have 
the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic held in Boston next year, I 
write to express the earnest hope that this will he done. The high estimation in which the 
Grand Army is held in Massachusetts is a sufficient assurance that both her government and 
citizens will heartily co-operate with the Massachusetts Department in extending a royal 
welcome to all who attend this Encampment, and in making the occasion one that will he 
worthy of the state and city, and that will he ever pleasantly remembered by their visitors. 

I trusl thai 1011 will urge and secure the acceptance of your invitation in order that 
Massachusetts may he honored by having her capital city selected for the gathering, which 
will be more than usually interesting and memorable, because held in the year which "ill 
complete the first quarter of a century from the victory at Appomattox. 

Cordially yours, 

J. Q^ A. Brackett. 

"I will admit, comrades, that it would be a grand thing for the old 
veterans to march down Pennsylvania Avenue again, twenty-five years after 
the close of the war; but is there anything grander or nobler in it than 
that they should march through the streets of the city from which went our 
Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Regiments — the first troops to march to the 
Nation's rescue when threatened by traitor hands? 

" We cannot show you the grave of Washington ; but we will take you 
to Cambridge Green and there show you the old elm under which he took 
command of the American army: that army at whose head he won the proud 
distinction of 'Father of his Country' — that army which never laid down 
its arms until a new nation was established on this continent. We wdl 
show you old ocean in all its might and grandeur, and you shall, if you can, 
win from its depths its finny inhabitants. 



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JOHN Q. A. BRACKETT, 

Governor of Ihe Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



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This motion was seconded by Past Commander-in-Chief Rea, who spoke 
as follows : — 

" I am one of those patriots trying to get to Washington for the past 
twenty-five years; but, nevertheless, I am instructed by the delegation from 
Minnesota to say that they unanimously prefer Boston as the place of hold- 
ing the next National Encampment. Indeed, we who live up there in God's 
own country have only one objection to Boston at any time, or for any 
purpose, and that is, it is fifteen hundred miles away from the present 
centre of our mighty continental progress. We are willing to trawl that 
distance to hold our next Encampment where the liberty of America was 
born on the soil of Massachusetts, where the first blood was shed for 
American freedom. We want to go there, and Minnesota seconds the 
nomination of Boston. 

•• It would be a grand thing to march down Pennsylvania Avenue, but 
a better one to visit Faneuil Hall, and stand where Charles Sumner stood 
more than forty years ago and uttered the sublime sentiment, 'Aloft on the 
throne of God, and not below in the footprints of a trampling multitude, 
are the sacred rules of right which no majority can displace or overturn': 
the forging of which into recognized, living law is our crown of triumph. 
I want to go to Boston. We all want to go to Boston." 

Comrade Goodale also read the following invitation from Mayor Mart 
of Boston : — 

• Let the Grand Army hold its next National Encampment in Boston. Boston is the 
most beautiful, the most hospitable and the most American city in the United States. 

Signed) Thomas N. Hart, Mayor." 

Remarks, favoring Boston as the most desirable location for the next 
Encampment, were then made by Comrades Pettibone of Tennessee, Campbell 
of Kansas, Hutchens of Kentucky, Gard of California, Silsby of Dakota, 
Crocker of Illinois and McElroy of Oregon. This approval of the "Hub" 
from the representatives of so many states, covering such a wide range of 
territory, extending even to the Pacific coast, carried great weight among 



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the unpledged delegates present ; and when the vote was taken, Boston had 
400 votes to 130 cast for Saratoga, Indianapolis and Washington. On the 
motion of Comrade Palmer of New York, the vote was made unanimous. 

It is, perhaps, needless to say that Boston was proud of the honor 
conferred upon it. The prominent citizens and gentlemen identified with 
every great movement for the advancement of Boston's interests compre- 
hended what it meant to entertain the great number of veterans who 
would assemble : then and there they determined to do their best and give 
the Grand Army an unsurpassed reception. 

At a special meeting of the council of administration of the Department 
of Massachusetts, G. A. R., held at headquarters, Boylston Building, Sept. 
ii, 1889, Department Commander Goodale stated that the National Encamp- 
ment had accepted the invitation of the Department of Massachusetts to 
hold its next annual session in Boston, and asked the council to devise 
means to provide for the entertainment of that body. 

The following were appointed a sub-committee to submit to the council 
for its approval the names of fifty persons, consisting of comrades of the 
G. A. R. and citizens of Massachusetts, to act in conjunction with the 
council of administration as a general committee for 1890, viz.: — 

Department Commander George L. Goodale, Senior Vice-Commander 
George H. Innis, Assistant Quartermaster-General C. N. Wallace, Depart- 
ment Inspector John H. Cook, Comrade Eli W. Hall of the elective council 
and fudge-Advocate Solomon A. Bolster. 

Department Inspector John H. Cook was chosen secretary of the sub- 
committee. 

At a special meeting of the council, held Oct. 21, 1889, the secre- 
tary of the sub-committee, in behalf of that body and in obedience to the 
previous vote of the council, submitted the names of fifty persons as a 
report of the committee ; but after discussion, the number being deemed too 
small, the report was recommitted to the sub-committee with full powers, 
both as to number and composition of the general committee, and the sum 
of five hundred dollars was appropriated for the use of the sub-committee 
to defray necessary expenses. 

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At the regular meeting of the council, held Nov. 13, 1889, the secretary, 
in behalf of the sub-committee, reported a list of names of persons selected 
to constitute a general committee. 

On the motion of Assistant Adjutant-General Alfred C. Monroe, this 
list was accepted as a report of progress, and the sub-committee was in- 
structed to continue its work until the formal organization of the general 
committee was made. 

The next step taken was a gathering of comrades and citizens to plan 
and carry out the arrangements for the National Encampment of 1890, 
in the Green Room of the State House, on the afternoon of Nov. 26, 
1889. Department Commander Goodale presided and was elected temporary 
chairman, and Comrade John H. Cook temporary secretary. It was voted 
that a committee of nine be appointed by the chair, to report at a future 
meeting nominations of persons to constitute permanent officers and others 
to compose sub-committees of the general committee. The chair appointed 
to carry out this motion: George S. Merrill, Hon. Charles Carleton Coffin, 
F. G. King, E. W, Hall, George W. Creasey, George W. Walker, John H. Cook, 
F. C. Brownell and George L. Goodale. 

The next meeting was held at the Green Room on the afternoon of 
Dec. 6, at which a permanent organization was reported anil unanimously 
accepted. The selection was as follows : — 



President: Treasurer: Secretary: 

John D. Long. Elisha S. Converse. Silas A. Barton. 

I V. e-Presidents : 

Charles Dj yens. Benjamin F. Butler. 

William Gaston. Leopold Morse. 

Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. Hon. Elijah A. Morse. 

Patrick A. Collins. E. W. Hincks. 

W. F. Draper. Harrison Hume. 
Geo. S. Merrill. 



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JOHN D. LONG, 

President of the General Committee. 



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An executive, finance and other committees were also selected and 
their organization completed. 

It is often said that a good start insures success ; and the able selection 
of the president and other executive officers certainly lent a strength of 
character and purpose which meant that the carrying out of the Encamp- 
ment on a broad and liberal scale was assured. 

The president, Hon. John D. Long, ex-governor of Massachusetts and 
ex-representative to the National Congress, is too well known throughout 
the country to need especial mention here. The universal comment was 
that no better selection could have been made than Governor Long to 
preside over the National Encampment committee. His counsel and advice, 
when doubtful questions on legal points arose, was most valuable ; and the 
fact that the vast business was conducted without a shadow of litigation 
arising; attests the value of his services to the committees. 

The treasurer, Hon. Elisha S. Converse, is one of Boston's merchant 
princes. He is manager and treasurer of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, 
president of the Boston Belting Company, president of the First National 
Bank, Maiden, Mass., a director of the Revere Rubber Company and the 
Exchange National Bank of Boston, president of the Rubber Manufacturers' 
Mutual Insurance Company, trustee of the Wellesley College, and also trustee 
of the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank. For two terms he has served the 
city of Maiden as its mayor, and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate 
in 1 880-8 1. His appointment as treasurer of the National Encampment was 
most fitting and appropriate. 

On the departure of the treasurer to Europe early in the summer, his 
son, Capt. Henry E. Converse, was unanimously appointed assistant treasurer, 
and to the close of the Encampment administered the affairs of that office 
in an able and satisfactory manner. 

The secretary, Mr. Silas A. Barton, was the prime mover in establishing 
in Massachusetts the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, an enormous 
plant, having Lynn for its home and Boston for its headquarters, with great 
branches in the principal cities of the United States and in foreign countries. 
He is a director in this company and the official head of its purchasing 



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department. He is president of the Brush Electric Company of Cleveland, O., 
and prominently connected with large manufacturing and mercantile interests 
in Boston and elsewhere. He is a comrade in the noted General Lander 
I'o>t 5, <<i Lynn, the largest Post in the country. The superb business 
qualifications ot Secretary Barton rendered him a master in the mapping nut 
and preparation of the details of the work at headquarters. To his planning 
and executive capacity may be attributed no small part of the success of 
this grand reunion of veterans. 

The vice-presidents were gentlemen widely known in their political, legal 
and mercantile vocations throughout the country. 

Meanwhile the state and city were by no means inactive, and assurances 
were early given that their hearty co-operation with the National committee 
could be expected. 

Governor Brackett, in his inaugural address, made prominent mention of 
the furthcoming event in words as follows: — 

'■ Important and interesting as these gatherings always are, this one will be especially 
so. as it takes place in the same year with the quarter centenary of the crowning victory at 
Appomattox. 

''Massachusetts has been honored by the selection of her capital as the place for this 
assemblage, and should manifest her appreciation of the honor by co-operating with the 
members of the Massachusetts Department of the Grand Army, and with all other patriotic 
citizens, in making the occasion one that shall be worthy of the state and the organization 
which will be here convened." 

For Boston, Mayor Hart, at the organization of the city government, 
referred to the project as follows: — 

"The National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which is to be held 
in Boston, will probably be the largest gathering of Union veterans ever assembled in New 
England. I recommend a liberal appropriation for the purpose, in order to show that Boston 
is not only hospitable and loyal, but ever grateful to the men who fought for the Union. 
The city, the commonwealth and the people ought to co-operate in making the Encampment 
worthy of Boston, Massachusetts and the assembled veterans." 



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C^e (Brecuht* Committee. 




IE committee having in charge the reception and 
entertainment of two hundred thousand visitors 
for an entire week, and all the necessary arrange- 
ments for the National Encampment, found itself 
confronted with a stupendous task ; yet it was 
cheerfully assumed, never once regretted, and was 
perfectly accomplished by the gentlemen compos- 
ing its membership, with the assistance of its 
auxiliaries. Such a body as this bears the same 
relation to the active sub-committees as the commander's staff to an army, 
with its presiding officer as the general in command. 

The executive committee maps out the plan of procedure, selects its 
correlative forces and directs the performance of their duties, ft is to this 
committee that the great public looks for results, and to it credit is accorded 
for the success, or censure for the failure, of the undertaking. 

Its watchful eye must be here, there and everywhere, allowing no 
necessary detail, great or small, to escape attention. It must ever hold 
itself in readiness for consultation and counsel, the solving of the difficult 
problems of finance, accommodations or other vital matters which constantly 
arise, and be prepared to extricate the business of all the other committees 
from whatever complications or obstructions they may meet. 

To be productive of the right results, the relationship of the members 
to each other and to their brother officials of other committees must be 
entirely harmonious. 



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Tin- achievements of the committees were largely owing to the unity of 
purpose and harmony of action that prevailed, and especially to the cordial 
relations that existed between the auxiliary and executive bodies. 

Doubtless the great end that was to be attained — an end national in 
its character and importance — was the grand incentive to laborious efforts. 
The reputation of the gentlemen composing the committees was a guarantee 
of right action, and their well-known zeal in every good work was evidenced 
by their accomplishments in this. It may be here stated that the members 
of the committees not of the Grand Army of the Republic were as enthu- 
siastic, determined and eager for the prosperity and success of the Encamp- 
ment as the comrades themselves. Their counsel carried great weight in 
the deliberations and often shaped the committee's course. 

It will be seen from the subjoined list that a representative and distin- 
guished body of men was selected to compose this committee. That they 
fulfilled all expectations, the end accomplished plainly attests. It will always 
Lie a source of pleasure to its members to review the results of their 
labors. 

[Members of the Executive Committee. 



John 1). Long, 

I'i [Sha S. Converse, ex officio. 



Silas A. BARTON, 



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George L. Goodale, C huh num. George S. Merrill. 

George W. Creasey. George H. Innis. 

Benjamin S. Lovell. Fred. G. King. 

John II. Cook. Eli W. II all. 

Myron P. Walker. Richard F. Tobin. 

Charles Carleton Com in. c. N. Wallace. 

W. W. Blackmar. William M. Olin. 

James F. Meech. F. C Brownell. 
Chaki.es B. Rohan. 

The first sessions of the committee were held at headquarters of the 
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necessary to secure permanent and more commodious headquarters, and these 
were obtained in the Lowell Building, No. 2 A Beacon street. 

The committee issued the following circular to the public : — 

The Great Grand *Army %eunion in Boston, in August, i8go. 

"The Grand Army of the Republic, the great veteran association of the 
country, has now reached a membership of nearly half a million ; its ranks 
include soldiers from all the armies of the Union and sailors of whatever 
fleet. It is absolutely free from partisanship ; with its comrades no political 
considerations ever come, and its action has been such that the leading 
veterans of all parties are enrolled in its ranks. It seeks only to perpetuate 
the patriotic memories of the great struggle in defence of the nation, to 
more closely cement the ties of comradeship born of battle, to care for the 
widows and orphans of those who died in defence of the flag, and to lessen 
the burdens and sweeten the life of him who did and dared that the nation 
might live. Its wonderful strength has been mainly acquired during the 
past ten years, and the annual sessions of the National Encampment have 
broadened into a magnificent National reunion (if the survivors of the war. 

"The National Encampment is the congress of the Order, comprising 
about one thousand representatives from the several departments, — the latter 
being generally separate states, — meeting annually to consider questions upon 
which the growth and strength of the great organization depends, and to 
enact laws for the more perfect illustration of the triple bond of " Fraternity, 
Charity and Loyalty," upon which its works rest. In Massachusetts alone, 
above six hundred thousand dollars has already been expended from the 
charity funds of the several Posts. 

"In August, 1890, in response to an invitation from the veterans of the 
Department of Massachusetts, warmly endorsed by state and city officials 
and leading business representatives, this great assemblage of veterans is to 
be held in the city of Boston. 

" From every section of the country come indications that this will be 
one of the largest o;atherings of the character since the war closed. The 



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year of 1890 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the return of peace, and 
the 'Boys of '6i propose to celebrate the event in a reunion worthy the 

-ion. 

"Since [865, tens oi thousands of the smis of New England, who served 
in the Union armies and navies, have removed to the states of the great 
West and there builded themselves homes. These are coming in battalions 
to once more grasp the hands of the comrades who stood shoulder to shoulder 
with them more than a quarter of a century ago, ami t<> again look upon 
the scenes oi their boyhood. All the veterans of New England will he here 
in greet them. 

■'Already entire Posts of the Grand Army in the West are arranging 
to take part in the great celebration, which, without doubt, will bring together 
a larger number of the veterans than have been gathered since the days when, 
the great contest against rebellion ended, the victorious armies marched in 
grand review before the President in Washington. Boston must he prepared 
tn welcome, during the week beginning Aug. 1 1, [890, a hundred thousand 
ol the men who followed the nation's flag more than twenty-five years ago. 

'• It is not probable, at least during the years of its strength, that the 
Grand Arm) will ever again come to Massachusetts; and this anniversary 
will, not unlikely, he altogether the largest in its entire existence. Massa- 
chusetts, which has more liberally provided for its veterans than any other 
commonwealth, will not be found wanting in the presence of this mighty 
army of patriotic men; and the extent of the hospitality of Boston, though 
i'l trn tested, has never reached its limit. 

"These visitors will not ask entertainment at our hands; but the work 
i'l providing places where the)' can be housed and fed while here, and of 
extending to them a genuine Massachusetts welcome, is a matter of no small 
magnitude and in which we must appeal for the cordial co-operation of all 
patriotic men and women. 

•'The work of preparation has been committed to a committee of some 
hundred and fifty, whose names have been already published. Sub-committees 
have been organized and are already vigorously prosecuting their labors, and 
we ask the kindly co-operation of the people of the state in their efforts. 




GEORGE S. MERRILL, 

Past Commander-in-Chief, G. A._R., 1881, 

Commander Dept. Mass., 1875, 

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" Headquarters have been established at No. 2 A Beacon street, near 
Tremont, which will be open at all hours, and where particulars of informa- 
tion will be gladly given. 

In behalf of the committee, 

John D. Long, President. 
E. S. Converse, Treasurer. 
Silas A. Barton, Secretaty. 

Headquarter* Executive Committee, Boston, Jan. g, rSgo." 



The first business transacted, after the adoption of the usual rides for 
self-government, was the formation of sub-committees. Invitations were sent 
out to leading citizens of Boston and vicinity to serve on one or the other 
of the committees of arrangements. The acceptances were prompt and 
heartv, with the exceptions of a few declinations from gentlemen who either 
pass the summer months abroad or whose business cares do not allow of 
participation in outside affairs ; and the complete organization was quickly 
effected. Additions were made from time to time when the original number 
was found to be inadequate. 

As soon as this selection of co-laborers was finished, the work commenced 
in earnest. Correspondence opened, and letters from Posts and individuals 
all over the country began to pour in. The executive and other committees 
received upwards of six thousand letters, the most of which required 
answers. The greater portion of the correspondence came in the few weeks 
preceding the opening day of the Encampment. 

The experience which Chairman Goodale and Secretary Barton had 
derived from attendance at former gatherings was especially valuable to 
them at this time. They proceeded at once, with the assistance of other 



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members of the executive committee and the chairman of the sub-committees, 

to draw up a suitable plan of the campaign. First a sketch of the work 
to be done was made, and the whole scheme roughly outlined. As sugges- 
tions and possibilities were constantly brought up and adopted, the crude 
design soon gave place to a clear and symmetrical form; all details were 
added, the plan completed ; and the committees were then given their lines 
of action, which they faithfully pursued until the victory was won. 

A large number of expert stenographers, clerks and messengers were 
employed at headquarters to facilitate the work. They consisted of the 
private secretary of Mr. Barton, Jesse Scribner, who, with Daniel J. 
Broderick and Edward E. Call, acted as chief stenographers ; Jacob W. 
Powell and W. S. Hastings, general stenographers; Edward E. Palmer, 
George 11. Teague, F. E. Ames, George II. Wheeler, Henry L. Warner, 
George A. Katon and F. M. Doble, general clerks ; Roval B. Wight and 
John M. White, custodians ; Thomas J. Caine and Percy M. Adams, record- 
ing secretaries; George S. Innis and Horace B. S. Teague, messengers. 

The illness of Secretary Barton, together with his heavy commercial 
cares, necessitated the employment of an assistant secretary; B. N. Adams 
of Post 66, Medford, was engaged ; and upon him devolved the task of 
carrying out the plans of the executive committee. 

The committee was in daily communication with the National Head- 
quarters at Detroit, as it was necessary, in devising many of the details, to 
receive the advice and sanction of Commander-in-Chief Alger. As the day 
drew near, the committees were pushed to the fullest extent of their capaci- 
ties. It was found necessary to appoint auxiliary bodies to aid the sub- 
committees in order to complete the work in season, and these additional 
helpers rendered most valuable assistance. They were attached to the com- 
mittees on entertainment, decorations, information and accommodations. 

In the preliminary arrangements ready money was needed. The finance 
committee had hardly taken the first steps in its duties before the daily 
expenses began to assume large proportions. Treasurer Converse, recog- 
nizing the exigencies of the hour, generously advanced the necessary funds 



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from his private purse : an act which Boston and the veterans will gratefully 
remember. 

Chairman Goodale's position gave him a leadership in the enterprise : 
and to him is due, in a great degree, the successful outcome of the 
Encampment. 

It would be impossible in this brief narration to give a complete account 
of the work performed by the executive committee. Details thereof would 
fill volumes, and much must and can be inferred ; only the greater features 
can be noticed. 

One of its most important aims was that of securing the attendance of 
the Chief Magistrate of the nation. A committee, consisting of Past Depart- 
ment Commander George L. Goodale, Comrade Eli W. Hall, commander of 
General Lander Post 5, of Lynn, representing the executive committee ; 
Department Commander George H. Innis, representing the Department of 
Massachusetts, Grand Army of the Republic ; Past Department Commander 
Richard F. Tobin, representing the city of Boston, and Adjutant-General 
Dalton, representing the state of Massachusetts, was appointed to person- 
ally wait upon the President and invite him to become the guest of the 
Encampment. 

The committee left Boston Monday afternoon, July 28, and reached 
Washington the following morning. They were met by Representative 
Cogswell, who accompanied the party to the White House, where they 
were received with marked kindness and cordiality by the President. The 
President's promise to be in Boston on the day of the parade was readily won ; 
but he stated that owing to the pressure and importance of his engage- 
ments, he could devote but one day to the occasion. The committee then 
called upon Vice-President Morton, who also assured them that he would be 
in Boston during the occasion of the grand parade. After a satisfactory 
interview with Acting-Secretary Soley of the navy in regard to the visit of 
the naval squadron to Boston, they departed for home, well pleased with 
the results of their journey. 

F*rom time to time the committee anxiously discussed the question of 
finance, apprehensive that the sum pledged and appropriated would be insuf- 



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ficient for its needs; bul the secretary kept a careful watch of financial 
matters, requiring from each committee, at regular intervals, an estimate of 
its expenses. It was found that the necessary outlays would come within 
the limit of the sum raised, ami the work of preparation was pushed with 
renewed courage and vigor. 

It was the committee's ambition to do everything practicable for the 
happiness of the coming guests, and to enhance the splendor of the occasion. 
The suggestion made by Comrade Nathan Appleton of Boston, that it would 
be an entertaining and imposing feature to have a naval display in the harbor 
during the Encampment, met with the unanimous approval of the committee, 
and by its direction the following communication was sent to the Secretary 
ol the Navy, Hon, B. F. Tracy: — 

Headquarters National Encampment, G. A. R.. for iSqo, 

Boston, July 11, 1S90. 
Hon. B. 1 ■'. Tii \t v, 

Secretary <>/'///< .Y<r: , v. Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: It is intended \<\ the executive committee of the Twenty-fourth National 
Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, that on the occasion of the assembling together 
of the veterans of this organization in this city in August next, no feasible or desirable 
feature which shall add eclat to this great reunion shall be omitted from the programme. 

The attention of this committee has been called to the United States naval squadron, 
now cruising in Eastern waters, and the suggestion offered that its presence in the harbor 
of Boston during the Encampment, and the tiring of salutes from it^ guns on the day of 
the parade, August 12, would add splendor to this grand National event. 

On this occasion there will lie present in Boston many thousands of people from distant 

parts of the country who have never seen a war ship; and as the squadron mentioned 

;>ii-e^ vessels of such a grand war history a^ that attaching to the noble Kearsarge and 

others, tuch a feature as it> presence in our harbor during Encampment week would be 

especially interesting to the strangers, as well as inspiring to all. 

These suggestions were fullj considered at the session of our committee of July <)■ 
ami the following vote relative thereto was passed: — 

"That the honorable Secretary of the Navy be requested by the executive committee 
of the Twenty-fourth National Encampment. Grand Army of the Republic, to detail the 
naval fleet, now cruising in Eastern waters, to lie present in Boston harbor on or before 
August 11. to remain there during the session of the Encampment; and when the Grand 



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Army begins its march through the streets of Boston, the commanding officer of the fleet. 
Admiral Gherardi, be authorized to fire a salute complimentary to the Encampment." 

The committee await such action upon this proposition and request as you may deem 
advisable to adopt. 

I have the honor to be, dear sir, respectfully yours, 

George L. Goodale, 
Chairman Executive Committee. 



A communication was received from Secretary Tracy, July 15, stating 
that the North Atlantic squadron would be ordered to Boston, and remain 
in the harbor during the Encampment. This message was the subject of 
general congratulation in Boston and to the veterans throughout the country 
who intended visiting Boston, and Chairman Goodale was warmly thanked 
for his successful efforts. 

But the chairman did not stop here in his naval programme, for on 
August 2 he sent a letter to the Navy Department, requesting that on 
August 16, when the delegates were to have their harbor excursion, the 
squadron should give an exhibition of naval evolutions. This answer was 
received : — 

Navy Department, 

Washington, Aug. 6, 1S90. 
George L. Goodale, Esq., 

Chairman of the Executive Committee, 

National Encampment. G. A. Jf. , for iSgo. 

Dear Sir: Rephing to your letter of the 2d inst.. in regard to evolutions of the ships 
of war the 16th inst., I have to state that a copy of your letter has been sent to Rear- 
Admiral Gherardi, the Commander-in-Chief of the North Atlantic station, with instructions 
to comply with your wishes as far as may be practicable. 

Very respectfully, 

J. R. Soley. 

Acting Secretary of the Navy. 

The following communication was received from the Secretary of 
War: — 



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War Department, Office of the Secretary, 
Washington, Aug. 6, 1890. 
George L. Goodale. Esq., 

Chairman Executive Committee 

National Encampment, G. A. It.. rSe/o. 

Dear Sir: Your letter of August 2 has been received. In reply I have to say that an 
order will be given the Commandant of Fort Warren to fire salutes in accordance with your 
request, on the occasion of the passage don 11 the harbor of the steamboat containing the 
delegates and invited guests of the National Encampment. 

Very truly yours, 

Redfield Proctor. 



The following telegram was received in connection with the preceding 
letters : — 

Washington, I). C. Aug. 7. 1S90. 
George L. Goodale, 

Chairman Executive Committee. Boston. Moss. 

Have ordered Baltimore, Atlanta. Kearsarge, Yorktown, Dolphin, Petrel. Vesuvius and 

Cushing. 

6 James R. Soley, 

I, ting Sei retary. 

The following correspondence is self-explanatory: — 

Boston, July 19, 1S90. 
Hon. Benjamin Harrison, 

President of the United States. 

Sir: The executive committee having in charge the arrangements of the Twenty- 
fourth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in Boston in 
August next, respectfully ask that all veteran soldiers and sailors in the employ of the 
Government, who desire to attend the Encampment, who can be spared tor that period 
without injury to the public service, be permitted to do so. and that the time between 
August 11 and 17. inclusive, be granted them in addition to the usual vacation allowed In 
the various departments. 

I have the honor to be. your very obedient servant. 

George L. Goodale. 
Chairman Executive Committee. 



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This is the reply received by Chairman Goodale : — 

Executive Mansion, 

Washington, D. C, July 24, 1S90. 
George L. Goodale, 

Chairman Executive Committee, 

National Encampment, G. A. R. 

My Dear Sir: The matter referred to in your letter of the 19th inst. has already 
been brought to attention by the commander of the G. A. R. Post for this district; and 
those desiring to attend the Encampment, who can be spared at that time, can make satis- 
factory arrangements with their chiefs or superior officers. A like rule will be observed by 
others in the employ of the Government, not in Washington. 

Very truly yours, 

E. W. IIalford, 

Private Secretary. 



The executive committee sent a circular letter to the leading wholesale 
and retail merchants of Boston, requesting that they close their establish- 
ments on August 12, the day of the parade, and an appeal was published 
in the newspapers that this be made a holiday. The request met with a 
general acceptance. Chairman Goodale then turned his attention to the 
post-office department in Boston, requesting that August 1 2 be observed by 
it as a holiday. The following correspondence resulted : — 



George L. Goodale, Esq., 

Chairman Executive Committe 



Post Office, 

Boston, Mass., July 25, 1S90. 



Dear Sir : Enclosed please find a copy of a letter from the Postmaster-General under 
date of July 23 inst., in reply to my indorsement of your communication, requesting that 
August 12th proximo be observed as a holiday by the post office in this city. 

Very respectfully, 

John M. Corse, 

Postmaster. 



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Office of rm Postmaster-General, 

Washington, D. C, Jul) : ;. iSyo. 

Dear Sir: I am in receipt of a communication from the chairman of the executive 
committee of the National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, in reference to closing 
the post office August 12. on the occasion of the general parade to be had in connection 
with said Encampment, and note your endorsement thereon. 

In reply, permit me to say that I do not think it would be wise to observe the day 
named as a holiday by the department to the extent of permitting your office to be closed 
as on a legal holiday. If you can. however, abridge the time necessary to do the work of 
the office satisfactorily to the patr.ui>. or so arrange it as to allow those who actually wish 
to take part in the parade to do so, I can see no reason why that may not be done. 

Very truly, 

Jl UIN VV \N AM tKER, 

General John M. Corse, Boston. Postmaster-General. 

The executive committee accepted the following as the official programme 
of Encampment week: — 

Monday, Aug. ii. — Reception of visiting Posts. 

Tuesday, Act;. 12, 10 a.m. — Grand parade. 

8 p.m. — Joint reception to the Grand Army of the Republic and Woman's 
Relief Corps, Mechanics Hall. 

Wednesday, Aug. 13, 10 a.m. — Opening of the Twenty-fourth National 
Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, Music Hall. 

10 a.m. — Opening of the Eighth Annual Convention, Woman's Relief 
Corps, Tremont Temple. 

10 a.m. — Opening of the Fourth National Convention of the Naval 
Veteran Association, Banta's Hall. 

S p.m. — Grand Army of the Republic camp-fire at Mechanics Hall. 

Thursday, All. 14, 10 a.m. — Adjourned meeting Grand Army of the 
Republic. 

10 a.m. — Adjourned meeting, Woman's Reliei Corps. 



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8 p.m. — Grand banquet complimentary to the delegates of the Twenty- 
fourth National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, together 
with invited guests, Boston city government and legislative com- 
mittee, Mechanics Hall. 

Friday, An;. 15, 9 a.m. — Grand Army of the Republic and Woman's 
Relief Corps excursion to Plymouth. 

8 p.m. — Woman's Relief Corps camp-fire, Tremont Temple. 

Saturday, Au<;. 16, 9 a.m. — Harbor excursion for the Grand Army of the 
Republic delegates and invited guests to witness the evolutions of 
the naval squadron. 

9 a.m. — Excursion to Nahant for the Woman's Relief Corps. 

The executive committee supervised all expenditures. Debts could not 
be incurred without its consent and approval. All bills rendered came before 
it at its sessions, were read by the secretary, and on approval were handed 
to the auditors, by whom they were formally examined, approved and forwarded 
to the treasurer for payment. The auditors were Hon. Charles Carleton 
Coffin, John H. Cook and George W. Creasey, all being members of the 
executive committee. 

The funds of the Encampment, as they were paid in, were deposited in 
two banks and drew interest. The state turned over its appropriation to the 
treasurer without delay, on presentation of receipted vouchers, and the money 
given by the city was transferred to the treasurer without formality. The 
city reserved no portion of its appropriation : the expenses of the reception 
and entertainment of its guests and of its reviewing stands were paid out of 
its own treasury. 

The location of the headquarters of the executive committee was 
convenient and accessible, being contiguous to the great thoroughfares, 
Washington and Tremont streets, and but a short distance from the railway 
stations. The rooms were commodious and pleasant. At all times of the 
day and late into the night they were thronged with Grand Army comrades, 
persons seeking information, sight-seers and curiosity-hunters. All visitors 



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were courteously treated, and none departed dissatisfied or displeased for 
lack of attention. Every letter of inquiry received was promptly and politely 
replied to. There was no neglect of any known duty, and the business daily 
transacted was of enormous proportions. But the close of each day found 
its work completed. 

The number of meetings held by the executive committee was forty- 
eight. The average attendance of members at these meetings was eleven. 
The time consumed at all its sessions was seventy-two hours ; but this is a 
brief period compared with the time otherwise employed by the members on 
the business of the committee and in the work of other committees, to which 
man\- of the executive body belonged. The number of reports received from 
sub-committees and acted upon were sixty-eight. The number of votes 
passed were three hundred and eighty-nine. 

During Encampment week the following members were assigned to 
duty at the Hotel Yendome, and the important business of the committee 
was transacted at that point : George L. Goodale, James F. Meech, Eli W. 
Hall, Charles Carleton Coffin, Fred G. King. 

Headquarters, 2 A Beacon street, were occupied until Sept. 30, by 
which date practically all the business was completed. The only unfinished 
matters were the adjustment and payment of a few bills and the compilation 
of the unofficial proceedings of the Encampment. Subsequent meetings 
were held at the office of Past Commander-in-Chief George S. Merrill, in 
Commonwealth Building, and at the State House. 

At the meeting held at headquarters, Aug. 1 8, 1890, it was voted that 
five members be appointed to draft resolutions to the United States, state 
and city governments, embodying expressions of the committee's appreciation 
and thanks for the great favors each had accorded the Encampment. 

At the meeting held in Commonwealth Building, Aug. 27, 1890, it 
was voted : — 

■•That a committee of one be appointed to compile the unofficial proceed- 
ing of the Encampment and forward them to the former National headquarters 
at Detroit, to be appended to the official journal in course of preparation by 
Past Adjutant-General Hopkins, and that Assistant Secretary B. X. Adams be 
elected to perform this work." 

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It was also voted that Chairman George L. Goodale, George S. Merrill 
and George W. Creasey be constituted a committee to devise, and report at 
the next meeting, a form of souvenir to be presented to persons who had 
in an)' way contributed to the success of the Encampment. 

At a meeting held at the State House, Dec. 9, 1890, the souvenir 
committee reported at length and made a series of recommendations, and, at 
the request of said committee, their report was accepted and the committee 
discharged ; and it was then voted that James F. Meech, Charles Carleton 
Coffin and Assistant Secretary Benj. N. Adams be appointed a special com- 
mittee to prepare and issue the souvenir volume, with full powers. 

The amenities of the sessions gave to them a charm and exhilaration 
that lightened the heavy cares and burdens resting upon the committee, and 
rendered them seasons of pleasant anticipation. 

The only break in its membership that occurred, and its only visitation 
of gloom, was in the untimely death of Comrade Richard F. Tobin. This 
was a heavy blow to the committee as a body and to all its members 
individually, for each claimed him as a beloved personal friend. He was 
a comrade tried and true, and a noble, honorable man, whose words and 
practices were always governed by his conviction and love of right and truth 
and duty. 




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lent: Treasurer: 



|ohn I). Long, Boston. E. S. Converse, Boston. 



N, , 1 ,7.1/ r . 



Si] ^s A. Barton, Boston. 



Vice-Presidents 



Charles Devens Boston. Leopold Morse, Boston. 

Win. Gaston, Boston. Hon. E. A. Morse, Washington. I). C. 

Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Washington, D. C. E. W. llincks. Cambridge. 

I'. A. Collins, Huston. Harrison Hume, Boston. 

W. I'. Draper, Hopedale. Geo. S. Merrill, Boston. 
Benj. F. Butler, Lowell. 



/ tecutvat : 



John 1). Long, \ 

<\ officio. 



I S. Converse, ex offic 

Silas A Barton. ) 

Geo I I dali Chairman, Boston. Ge<j. II. Innis, Boston. 

Geo W. Creasey, Boston. E. W. Hall, Lynn. 

Benj. S. Lovell Boston. F. G. King, Boston. 

John II. Cook. Boston. Richard F. Tobin, Boston. 

Charles Carleton Coffin, Boston. C. N. Wallace, Boston. 

Myron I'. Walker. Belchertown. Wm. M. Olin, Boston. 

W. VV. Blackmar, Boston. F. C. Brownell, Boston. 

James I '. Meech, Boston. Chas. B. Rohan. Boston. 
Geo. S. Merrill, Boston. 






Offtctaf feist of Committees. 



Finance 



Edw. II. Haskell. Chairman, Boston. 
E. W. Kinsley, Boston. 
Chas. II. Taylor, Boston. 
A. Shuman, Boston. 

Geo. O. Carpenter, Boston. 
Asa P. Potter, Boston. 
S. B. Newton, Boston. 
W. T. Van Nostrand, Boston. 
Ephraim Stearns, Boston. 
\V. W. Kellett. Boston. 
C. A. Jones, Boston. 
II. W. Huguley, Boston. 
C. A. R. Dimon, Lowell. 
F. W. Breed. Boston. 
Chas. Weil, Boston. 

E. Rollins Morse. Boston. 
\V. W. Clapp, Boston. 
Win. A. Haskell, Boston. 
S. Henry Skilton, Boston. 
A. C. Masury, Boston. 
Samuel Hobbs, Boston. 
G. D. Gilman, Boston. 
N. J. Rust. Boston. 
John C. Randall, Boston. 
Joel Goldthwaite, Boston. 
F. F. Emery, Boston. 
II. (). Aldrich. Boston. 



Benj. F. Hunt, Jr., Boston. 
Thos. E. Barker, Boston. 
Geo. A. Keeler, Boston. 

Spencer W. Richardson, Boston. 
E. H. Woods, Boston. 
E. V. Mitchell. Medlield. 
Jno. C. Ilavnes, Boston. 
Levi C. Wade. Boston. 
Win. S. Pratt, Boston. 
Frank J. Pope, Boston. 
II. (i. Kemp, Cambridge. 
Eben D. Jordan, Boston. 
J. N. North, Boston. 

E. C. Johnson, Boston. 
W. A. Tower. Boston. 
|. S. Paine, Boston. 

Howard W. Spurr, Boston. 
Jacob P. Bates, Boston. 
W. P. Shreve, Boston. 
A. L. Newman, Boston. 
R. D. Evans, Boston. 
A. W. Beard. Boston. 

Henry (i. Parker, Boston. 
R. F. Barrett, Concord. 
John Carr, Boston. 

|. II. Freeland, Boston. 
M. R. Warren. Boston. 



Accommodation . 



Harrison Hume, Chairman, Boston. 
B. Read Wales, Secretary, Boston. 
Thos. Langlan, Boston. 

Augustine Sanderson, Boston. 
F. C. Brownell, Boston. 
M. T. Donohoe. Boston. 
Theo. Leutz, Boston. 

Chas. D.'W. Marcy, Boston. 
Chas. B. Fox, Boston. 

Geo. L. Goodale, Boston. 



W. D. Park, Boston. 

John 1). Billings, Cambridgeport. 
Chas. B. Rohan, Boston. 

Chas. D. White, Boston. 

James W. Brodbine, Boston. 
Albert S. Buswell, Bo-ton. 
Chas. C. Adams, Boston. 

Chas. E. Hapgood, Boston. 
M. C. Grant, Boston. 



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Cffictaf fetrt of Committees. 



Transportation : 



\. R. Watson, Chairman, Boston. 

I'. E. ( >rcutt, Secretary, Boston. 
1 \. Buffinton, Boston. 

VV. S. Condell, Boston. 
I E. Currier, Boston. 

Geo. W. Walker. Boston. 
Ceo. G Bailej . Boston. 

Ubert A. Smith. Boston. 
C. A. Brown, Huston. 



S. A. Bolster, Boston. 

Geo. II. Innis, Boston. 

\Y. C. Tallman, Boston. 
I). |. Flanders, Boston. 
E. I. Hathorne, Boston. 
Eli W. Hall, Lynn. 

jos. II. Smith, Boston 

Russell A. Alger. Detroit. Mich. 
Allied Hocking, Boston. 



Information 



Thus. E. Barker, Chairman, Boston. 
Chas. C). Davis, Secretary, Boston. 
W. 1. I lutchins, Boston. 
Peter D. Smith, Andover. 
I ph Gt egory, Boston. 

Geo. W. Creasey, Boston. 
fohn 11. Cook. Boston. 



Henry B. l'eirce, Boston. 

Chas. 1>. Nash, Whitman. 

John 1). Billings. Cambridgeport. 
W. A. Stevens, Maiden. 

Chas. A. Ruggles. Boston. 

Iknn E. Turner. Jr., Boston. 
Win. M. Olin, Boston. 



Parade 



T. R. Mathews, Chairman. Boston. 
Fred G. King, Secretary, Boston. 
Ceo. S. Merrill, Boston. 
Hun. Win. Cogswell. Washington. 1). C. 
Geo. L. Goodale, Boston. 
Sain'l Dalton, Boston. 



C. A. R. Oimon, Lowell. 

Albert T. Whiting, Boston. 
F. C. Brownell, Boston. 
Geo. 11. Innis. Boston. 

Chas. B. Rohan, Boston. 



Ttyunions : 



i, Bradley, Chairman, Boston. 
Chas. (I. Fellows, Secretary Boston. 

lames A. Fox, Cambridge. 

( , B. \ila::..~. Boston. 

|. Willard Browne. Cambridge. 

Ubert C. Andrews, Gloucester. 



Arthur A. Smith. Griswoldville. 

Chas. L. Mitchell, Boston. 
Urn. Provin, Westfield. 
Alex. Blackburn, Lowell. 

Geo. N. Munsell, Harwich. 



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<Dfftctaf £t0t of Committees. 



Entertainments 



Geo. H. Innis, Chairman. Boston. 
J. B. Maccabe, Secretary, Boston, 
(.'has. O. Fellows, Boston. 
E. A. Buffinton, Boston. 
A. A. Folsom, Boston. 

John Boyle O'Reilly, Boston. 
11. A. M'Glenen, Boston. 
R. M. Field. Boston. 
J. H. Cruff, Boston. 

W. II. Thonies, Boston. 
C. S. Clerke, Boston. 

Austin S. Cushman, New York. 
A. B. R. Sprague, Worcester. 
Francis A. Osborn, Boston. 



Hon. William Cogswell, Washington, D. C. 
John W. Kimball. Fitchburg. 
George S. Merrill, Boston. 
Horace Binnev Sargent, Santa Monica, Cal. 
J. G. B. Adams, Boston. 

George W. Creasey, Boston. 
George S. Evans. Boston. 
John D. Billings, Cambridgeport. 
John W. Hersey, Springfield. 
Richard F. Tobin, Boston. 
Charles D. Nash, Whitman. 

Myron P. Walker, Belchertown. 
(ieorge L. Goodale, Boston. 



Decorations : 



Richard F. Tobin, Chairman, Boston. 
R. I!. Henderson, Secretary, Boston. 
Geo. G. Bailey, Boston. 

Wm. S. Butler, Boston. 

John B. O'Brien, Boston. 
Geo. A. Sawin, Chelsea. 



Azel Ames, Jr., Wakefield. 
A. W. Ilersey, Boston. 

Isaac P. Gragg, Boston. 

J. Edward Hollis, Boston. 

Thomas A. Ball, Boston. 



Reception : 



Hon. J. Q^ A. Brackett, Governor of the 
Commonwealth of Mass., Chairman. 
Charles B. Rohan, Sec'y, Boston. 

Hon. H. II. Sprague, President of the Mass. 
Senate. 

Hon. W. E. Barrett, Speaker of the Mass. 
House of Representatives. 

Hon. Thomas X. Hart, Mayor of the City 
of Boston. 

Wm. P. Wilson, Chairman Board of Alder- 
men, Boston. 

Horace G. Allen, President Common Coun- 
cil, Boston. 



Arthur A. Fowle. Boston. 
Fred. G. Ring, Boston. 

Paul II. Kendricken. I'.oston. 
Hon. J. II. O'Neil, Washington, D. C. 
Arthur A. Smith. Griswoldville. 
Joel Goldthwaite, Boston. 
Jno. W. Kimball, Fitchburg. 
Chas. J. Noyes, Boston. 
E. A. Stevens, Boston. 
H. G. Allen, Boston. 
Geo. S. Merrill. Boston. 

Myron P. Walker, Belchertown. 
Wm. H. Lee, Greenwood. 



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£>fftctaf £ist of Commtttcce. 



Reception — Continued. 



Geo. 11. [nnis, Boston, 
[no. I. Andrew, Washington, D. L'. 
M i >■ a ii ) .ill River, 
fohn \\ . I lersej . Sj 
Chas. I-:. < (sgood, Boston . 

Henr) E. Smith. Worcester. 
A. B. R. Sprague, W orcester. 



pi S. Evans, Chairman, Boston. 
I . B. Stillings, Secretary, Boston. 
John II. i I'Oonnell, Boston. 
Peter I). Smith. Andover. 



Nathan Appleton, Boston. 
S. W. Benson, Boston. 

Jos. o. Burdett, Boston. 
Albert Clarke. Boston. 

1'. C. Brownell, Boston. 
A. S. Fowle, Boston. 



Printing : 



11. \. Sawyer, Boston. 

fohn D. Hillings, Cambridgeport. 
Chas. W. Reed. Boston. 



Geo. S. Merrill, Chairman, Boston. 
Jos. Ii. Maccabi Si < i etarj . Boston. 
Wm. M . Olin, Boston. 

W. Wallace Waugh, Boston. 



Tress: 



F. C. Brownell. Boston. 

Chas. B. Rohan, Boston. 

Weston F. Hutchins. Boston. 

Thomas F. Anderson. Boston. 



Geo II. [nnis, Chairman, Boston. 

Geo. W. Creasey, Secretary, Boston. 
Ril hard F. Tobin, Bo-ton. 



'Badges : 



Geo s. Merrill. Boston. 

Geo. L. Goodale, Boston. 



Grand Stands : 



Geo II. [nnis, Chairman, Boston. 

Chas. B. Rohan. Secretary, Boston. 
John II. Cook, Boston. 



E. W. Hall, Lynn. 

C. X. Wallace, Boston. 



Invitations : 



John I). Long ( hail man, Boston. 

G ' I < dale Sei i etar) . Boston. 

Silas A.I; ! ; iston. 

John 11. Cook, Boston. 

11. [nnis, Boston. 



E. S. Converse, Boston. 

Geo. S. Merrill, Boston. 

James F. Meech. Boston. 
Wm. M. Olin, Boston. 



Commtftee on finance* 




k NE of the must important committees of the National 
Encampment, and one which can be said to have 
properly furnished the groundwork whereby the work 
of all the other committees was made possible, was 
the committee on finance. Its organization was one 
of the first steps taken by the executive committee, 
as the responsible task of raising the needful funds 
to prosecute and carry out the great features con- 
templated could not be considered otherwise than a serious problem. 

It was necessary that the committee should be composed of men 
whose very names were synonymous with integrity and financial soundness ; 
and, with this end in view, the co-operation of gentlemen of eminent business 
and professional reputation was secured. 

The committee consisted of the following named persons: — 



Edward 11. Haskell, Chairman. 



E. W. Kinsley. 

Clias. 1 1. Taylor. 
A. Shuman. 

George O. Carpenter. 
Asa P. Potter. 

S. B. Newton. 
W. T. Van Xostrand. 
Ephraim Stearns. 
W. W. Kellelt. 
C. A. Jones. 

H. W. Huguley. 

S. Henry Skilton. 



F. W. Breed. 
Chas. Weil. 

E. Rollins Morse. 
VV. W. Clapp. 

Win. A. Haskell. 
Geo. A. Keeler. 
A. C. Masury. 

Samuel Hobbs. 
G. D. Gilman. 
N.J. Rust. 

John C. Randall. 

Joel Goldthwaite. 



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Committee on finance. 



F. F. Emery. E. C.Johnson. 

II. O. Aldrich. VV. A. Tower. 

Benj. F. Hunt, Jr. J. S. Paine. 

Thos. E. Barker. Howard W. Spurr. 

Frank J. Pope. Jacob P. Bate-. 

Spencer W.Richardson. W. P. Shreve. 

E. II. Woods. A. L. Newman. 

E. V. Mitchell. R. D. Evan-. 

Jno. C. Haynes. A. W. Beard. 

Levi (_'. Wade. Henry G. Parker. 

Wm. S. Pratt. R. F. Barrett. 

C. A. R. Dimon. John Carr. 

II. (,. Kemp. J H. Freeland. 

Eben D. Jordan. M- R- Warren. 

|. N. North. 



The important position of chairman of this committee was unanimously 
tendered to Col. Edward H. Haskell, who felt compelled at first, on 
account of the pressure of his business affairs, to decline such an important 
trust, but afterwards accepted it and entered upon its duties. 

The committee held several meetings during the early part of the year, 
perfecting its organization and discussing the best methods in which to 
proceed in raising needed funds. 

As the state of Massachusetts and the city of Boston had cordially 
joined with the Department of Massachusetts, G. A. R., in extending an 
invitation to the National Encampment of the year previous to make 
Massachusetts and Boston its honored assembling place, it was decided that 
the state and city governments should be asked to contribute towards the 
financial success of the undertaking by such an appropriation as would be 
in accordance with the importance of the occasion and the dignity of their 
respective governments, 

The result was, that an appropriation of £50,000 was secured from the 
state anil $25,000 from the city, by the unanimous action of each govern- 
ment. 

In response to the request of the chairman of the finance committee, 



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EDW. H. HASKELL, 

Chairman Finance Committee. 



Committee on finance. 



the executive committee, through a sub-committee appointed on estimates, 
reported that, in their judgment, the expenses of the Encampment would be 
in the vicinity of $100,000. 

While the action of the state and city authorities had been, to a certain 
extent, anticipated, it was early determined that the importance of the great 
occasion and the honor and dignity of the city of Boston required the raising 
of a further amount, to guarantee its financial success, by a contribution from 
the merchants and citizens. 

The next action of the committee was to determine as to whom this 
appeal for funds should be made ; and it was unanimously agreed that, as 
the state would be likely in behalf of all our people to make a suitable 
appropriation, and as the celebration was to be largely local in its character 
and confined to the city of Boston, no private subscription should be solicited 
except from the merchants and citizens of Boston. This position was 
endorsed by the public sentiment as well as by the generous subscriptions 
received. 

It was decided that an effort should be made to raise a guarantee fund 
of $100,000, the subscribers to which should be called upon to pay such 
a percentage of their subscriptions, pro rata, as might be needed to defray 
the expenses of the entertainment after the state and city appropriations had 
been used, with an additional proviso that such merchants and citizens who 
preferred to make an outright gift of this in lien of uniting in the guarantee 
fund should indicate such desire at the time (if making their subscriptions. 

In accordance with the suggestion of the chairman of the committee, 
an appeal was then prepared and issued through the press as follows : - 

Headquarters National Encampment, G. A. R., for iSyo. 

Boston, June 25, 1890. 
To tin- Citizens of Boston: 

In response to a most cordial invitation from the veterans of Massachusetts, warmly 
seconded bv our state and city officials, the Grand Army of the Republic have honored this 
city as the gathering place of the coming National Encampment. 

Occurring upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of the year made memorable at Appomattox 
bv the close of the war, this great gathering of the veterans of our country, led by many 

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Committee on <£tn<xnce. 



of their great captains, who achieved the highest distinction and the lasting gratitude of their 
countrymen, promises to be a most eventful occasion in the history of our city. 

To a state and citv whose reputation became historic through all the dark and trying 
scenes of the war. by the quick, responsive loyalt) of her people and In the generous out- 
pouring of her treasure, such an event as this will appeal at once to our citizens as an 
opportunity for grateful recognition of the services of the Grand Army. 

To carry out this celebration with a dignity commensurate with its National importance 
and in keeping with the reputation of our city for hospitality and public spirit, will 
necessitate a large expense. The committee, therefore, appeal to all our citizens to con- 
tribute, in as generous a manner as possible, toward securing a guarantee fund of at least 
$100,000 to meet any deficit not covered by the state and city appropriations. 

All such subscriptions or gifts will be gratefully appreciated and acknowledged through 
the press, and may be sent to the chairman of the finance committee at above address. 

In behalf of the finance committee. 

Edward II. Haskell, 

Chairman . 

The response to the appeal of the committee and the solicitations of the 
sub-committees was prompt and liberal ; so much so that the first announce- 
ment of the committee showed a subscription of $25,010 to the guarantee 
fund, and $5,125 to the gift fund. From that time on, the work of the 
committee was constant and unremitting, until they were able to gratefully 
acknowledge on the opening day of the Encampment the receipt of subscrip- 
tions to the amount of 544,565 to the guarantee fund, and 513,762 to the 
gift fund. 

The following are the names of the 

Subscribers to the Guarantee Fund. 

Andrew. John V $500 Adams House ... . . .$500 

Ames, Oliver 500 American House . . ... 100 

Ames. Fred L 500 

Andrews ,V Co., John A 100 Boston Globe 500 

Atkins & Co., E 100 Boston Herald . >oo 

Allen, Lane .N. Co 100 Boston Transcript . . 500 

Alden & Co., Geo. A 100 Boston Advertiser. . . 250 

Andrews, E. Jones 10 Boston Record . . .... . 250 



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Committee on finance. 



Baker & Co., Walter $500 

Beal, Higgins & Henderson . . . 250 

Bliss, Fabvan & Co 250 

Butler .V Co., W. S 250 

Bigelow . Kennard & Co 150 

Brewster, Cobb and Estabrook . . . 100 

Blake & Stearns 100 

Barnes. Hutchinson cc Pierce . . . 100 

Bradford, Thomas & Co 100 

Boyd, Leeds & Co 50 

Briggs, Shattuck lV Co 50 

Barbour Bros. Co., The ico 

Brown, Durrell is: Co 100 

Bouvi'. Crawford & Co 100 

Bird & Co., J. A. & W 50 

Boston Bolt Co 10 

Brunswick Hotel 500 

Brigham & Co., R. B 25 

Bell & Co., Wm. (i 25 

Bailey, Chas. H 20 

Ball, Edwin A 5 

Boston & Albany R.R. Co. . . . 3,000 
Boston & Maine R.R. Co. . . . 3,000 

Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn R.R. :^n 

Bent & Co., G. W 25 

Burnham, L. G. 81 Co 25 

Converse, E. S 1,000 

Clapp, CM 250 

Gushing, Olmsted & Snow .... 200 

Chandler & Co 100 

Cobb, Bates & Yerxa 100 

Chase & Sanborn 100 

Cobb, Aldrich & Co 100 

Converse, Stanton & Cullen . . . 100 

Case. Dudley & Battelle 100 

Carter, Rice & Co 100 

Conant & Co., E. S 25 

Crocker, Eldridge & Co 25 

Carter l\: Co., John 100 



Crosby Steam Gage & Valve Co. . . $100 

Crosby & Son. C. A. W 50 

Clark, Edward E 25 

Cutter Tower Co 25 

Coon ..V Co., Howard 10 

Cleveland. Brown Si Co 50 

Curtis, L. II 20 

Chandler & Co., J. G 5 

Cutting, Chas. U 100 

Cutler Bros. & Co 100 

Carter, Carter & Kilham 100 

Clark's Hotel 50 

Coolidge House 50 

Chandler & Farquhar 10 

Curtis & Co 50 

Coy, Alonzo 10 

Ditson Co.. Oliver 500 

Denison Mfg. Co 500 

Draper & Sons, Geo 250 

Dana ..V Co., Thomas 100 

Dwinell, Hayward & Co too 

Danforth, Clark Si Co 100 

Dwight, Edmund too 

Denny, Poor Si Co 100 

Denny, Rice ..V Co 100 

Doane & Co., Francis 25 

Davis & Co., J. Alba 25 

Dickerman & Co.. Geo. H 50 

Da\ is iV Co., Curtis 100 

Davis & Son, James C 25 

Dyer & Co., L. M 50 

Dunbar, D. A 25 

Deane Si Co., J. M 100 

Evans. R. D 300 

Freeland. Loomis & Co 500 

Fenno & Co., Isaac 500 

Faulkner, Page & Co 250 



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Committee on finance. 



Fenno & Co.. Geo. A $100 

Frost & Co., Rufus S ioo 

Field. Thayer Mfg. Co ioo 

Fowle. Cobb & Pearson too 

Fillebrown & Co.. C. 1! too 

Foster & Co., F. A 50 

French & Co., Abram 50 

Fay & Co., Temple R 25 

Frost & Adams -5 

Fallow, Geo. A 5° 

Falmouth House -5 

Fletcher. J. V 5° 

Farnum ,S; Co 25 

Green & Co., Chas 100 

Gowing, Sawyer & Co too 

Globe Clothing Store 50 

Gay & Co., Aaron R 25 

Groom & Co.. Thomas ..... 25 

Greenough, Hopkins ,Sc Cushing . . 25 

Gilman. John D 25 

Goodwin & Co.. Geo. C 100 

Gilman Brothers 50 

Good now & Wightman 15 

Gass, Doe & Co 50 

Glover & Willcomb 5° 

Gay & Parker Co 25 

Hovey & Co.. C. F 1.000 

Hawlev, Folsoni & Martin .... 250 

Harding, Whitman & Co 250 

Houghton. Dutton & Co 200 

Hollander & Co., L. P 200 

Hall .V Co., Martin L 100 

Hill. Clarke & Co 100 

Hyde .V Southworth 50 

Haskell & Adams 50 

Haves & Co., James A 25 

Hecht Brothers & Co too 

Hobbs & Co., Samuel 25 



Homer & Hammond $2q 

Hall, W. E 5 

1 [all, Henry 5 

Hildreth. Chas. W 5 

Haskell. Edward H 100 

Hall & Co., Dudley 25 

Houghton. Mifflin .V Co 100 

Haskell & Son. A. L 100 

Hall .V Cole 25 

llirsh .V Park 10 

Jordan. Marsh & Co 1,000 

Joy, Langdon & Co 100 

Johnson & Co.. II. A 10 

Jones, McDuffee & Stratton .... 50 

Jones, B. M 25 

Jones & Co., C. L 100 

Johnson. Benjamin 50 

Kellev & Co., Thomas 100 

Kemp & Son. Lysander 25 

Kellett, W. \V 100 

Lovell & Sons, John P 200 

Lodge, Henry Cabot 100 

Lovett, Hart & Phipps Co 100 

Lewis, J. H 25 

Leonard, George 10 

Lockwood, R. & P. C 100 

Luce & Manning 100 

Little, Samuel 100 

Lincoln. Beza 25 

Langham House 50 

Lee & Shepard 25 

Leonard. Samuel S 50 

Lawrence X Co.. II. S 50 

Miner. Beal & Hackett 500 

Macullar, Parker & Co 500 

Morse & Co.. Leopold 500 



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Committee on finance. 



Mitchell, E. V $5°° 

Moody & Co., Chas. E 100 

Minot, Hooper & Co ioo 

Maynard & Co., F. D 5° 

Monroe & Co., I. W 25 

Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. . . . ioo 

Murphy & Co -5 

McFarlin, Geo. R 25 

May. Joseph -5 

Myrick & Drake 5 

Morse, Edwin F 5 

Metropolitan House 50 

Morse, A. S 10 

Nash, Spaulding & Co 100 

Xickerson. A. W 100 

Nickerson & Co., J. F 25 

Nash & Co -5 

Nichols, Dupee & Co 100 

Norcross, Mellen & Co 25 

Norton. Will B 5 

North Packing & Provision Co. . . 100 
New York .V New England R.R. Co. 2,000 

Nash, Walter 25 

Oak Grove Farm Co 100 

Old Colony R.R. Co 1,000 

Osgood & Co., Chas. E 100 

Peavey iV Brothers, J 200 

Pierce & Co., S. S 100 

Peirce & Co., Silas 100 

Parker, Wilder & Co 100 

Parker, Holmes & Co 100 

Pulsifer, Jordan .V Pfaff 100 

Pinkham, Theodore 100 

Plymouth Rock Pants Co 100 

Parmenter, W. H 50 

Pierce, Nathaniel W 25 

Paige, John C 100 

Park House 50 



Russell Paper Co $200 

Rhodes, Ripley & Co 100 

Rice. Kendall t V Co 100 

Rothwell & Co.. James 100 

Rand & Crane 50 

Reed & Brother 50 

Robinson Engraving Co 25 

Revere House too 

Read & Sons, William 100 

Rust .Si Richardson Drug Co. . . . 100 

Ross, Turner & Co 100 

Reynolds Hotel 50 

Shepard, Norwell ..V Co 500 

Shuman ,.\: Co., A 500 

Standard Clothing Co 500 

Stearns & Co., R. II 300 

Simons, Hatch & Whitten .... 250 

Smith, Whiting & Connor .... 200 

Shreve, Crump & Low 15" 

Spit/. Bros. & Mork 100 

Spun- & Co., Howard W 100 

Sleeper & Co., S. S 100 

Saville, Somes & Co 100 

Stickney & Poor 100 

Sawyer, Manning & Co 100 

Smith, Hogg & Gardner 100 

Sawtell & Co., A 50 

Swain, Earle & Co 50 

Sears & Co to 

Stimpson ,.V Co 100 

Stoughton Rubber Co 100 

Spencer, A. W 100 

Strachan, Wm. M 10 

Stalker ,t Co 5 

Sherman House 50 

Swift Bros. & Co 100 

Swan iV Newton 50 

Sturtevant & Haley 25 

Sands, Furber & Co 25 



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Committee on finance. 



Tower. Giddings & Co. 
Talbot. Wilmarth & Co. . . 
Thompson, Willis & Moulton 
Train. Smith & Co. . . . 
Tileston & Hollingsworth Co. 

Temple, 1 [enry M 

Thorndike Hotel 



Vendome Hotel 
Victoria Hotel . 



White .V Co.. R. H. . . 
Whitten, Burdett & Young 
Week- & Potter .... 
Weil, Dreyfus & Co. . . 
Wheelwright. Eldridge & Co 
Warren & Co.. S. D. . . 
Wade. Levi C 



$500 
100 
100 
100 
100 
10 
100 

500 
250 

600 
500 
500 
250 
200 
21 < 1 
100 



Wason, Peirce & Co $100 

Win-low. Rand & Watson .... 50 

Whiting & Co.. I. () 50 

Weeks ..V Co.. Geo. II 25 

Washburn Credit House 25 

Wilder >V Co 100 

Warren & Co., M. C 100 

Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co 100 

Williams & Coburn IOO 

Williams „\: Co.. Alex 50 

Warren. M. R 25 

Winklev. Dresser & Co 25 

Ward Co., Samuel 25 

Whittemore & Co.. J. M 25 

Wiggin & Sons. Charles E 25 

Whitney, Edward 100 

Wise, Daniel P 25 

Winthrop Hoii s e 50 



Subscribers to the Gift Fund. 



Alley Brothers .V Place $100 

Allen. Bradley & Co 50 

American Powder Mills .... 
Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. 
Arey, Maddock & Locke .... 



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Armstrong Transfer Express Co. . . 100 

Boston Journal 100 

Breed. Francis W. ■ 100 

Bo-ton Lead Mfg. Co 100 

Bailey & Rankin 50 

Buchanan & Lyall 50 

Batchelder .V Lincoln 100 

Byam, E. G 25 

Bent. E. & J. S 15 

Brackett & Co., W. D 50 

Brooks & Co 25 

Barta .X Co., L 5 

Berwick & Smith i 



Clapp, W. W 

Claflin, Win.. Coburn & 
Carpenter & Son. G. () 
Chipman & Co.. W. II 
Carter. Chas. M. . 
Cowdrey Company, E. T 
Colburn, Fuller & Co. 
Chase. Merritt ..V Co. 
Copeland, Daniel T. . 

Cunio, A 

Carruth & Co.. Nathan 
Coburn & Co., II. B. 
Cheever, David W., Dr 
Cheeney, B. P. . . 
Crocker. Ceo. A. . 
Chase & Barstow . 
Crawford House 
Cummings Printing Co 
Cash 



$100 
100 

5° 
100 

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IO 

5 
20 

20 
10 
u>o 
50 
25 



60 



Commtttcc on Stnancc. 



Claflin & Co., \V. H $25 

Devens. Chas U) ° 

Dunn, Green & Co 100 

Dudley, Myron S ' 

Dover Stamping Co 2 5 

Dixwell. Arthur -° 

Davis Shoe Co Kx) 

Dizer & Co., M. C 5° 

Dodd, Henry W 5° 

DeWolfe, Fiske & Co io 

Doliber-Goodale Co i«> 

Emery, F. F too 

Eaton, Chas. S io 

Ellis, Geo. H 'O 

Fogg, Geo. O io 

Frost & Dearborn i° 

Foss, J. W S 

Fitchburg R.R. Co 1,000 

Fleming & Co., E io 

Ford, D. S 25 

Foster, E. W 5 

Fuller. Dana & Fitz 100 

Field, Bullivant & Field 50 

Foster & Co 25 

Goldthwaite & Co., Joel 100 

Goodyear Shoe and Machinery Co. . 100 

Goulding, William 20 

Gore. Fred S 10 

Gillespie, J. Y S 

Gregory, F. W IO 

Guild & Son, Henry 25 

Glen Mfg. Co 100 

Gross, Chas. E 5 

Ginn & Co 25 

Houghton, Coolidge & Co. . . . 100 

Hartley & Co.. II. A 100 

Hollingsworth & Whitney Co. ... 100 

Harwood Bros 25 



Huguley & Co., H. W $100 

Howes, Elizabeth 100 

Hathaway, Soule & Harrington . . 100 

Hosmer, Codding & Co 50 

Holmes, A. S 25 

Hull .V Co., C. E 5 

Hill, L. M. T 5 

Howland t V Co., F>ank 5 

Higgins, Snow & Co 25 

Homer Bros • • 25 

Heath & Co 5 

I\ers & Pond Piano Co 100 

Jackson, Mandell & Daniel! .... 100 

Jewell & Co., Edward 5° 

Kettell & Blake 25 

Kinsley, E. W 25 

Kinsley. C. A 25 

Leeson & Co., J. R 100 

Laity & Collins 25 

Leonard, G. H 25 

Loring iV Avery 100 

Lodge. J. ICllerton, Mrs 50 

Leach & Green 25 

Lowe, Louis G 25 

Leach, Shewell & Sanborn .... 5 

Morse, Elijah A 100 

Masury, Young & Co 25 

Munroe Felt & Paper Co 50 

Mawhinney & Co., 11. 11 100 

McDonald, Perkins .V Co 25 

Moody, George W 1 

Marble, Jerome & Co 25 

"M. .V Son" 5° 

Moody, Estabrook & Anderson . . . 100 

Marshall, 1. W. S 25 

Mudge, F. 11 10 

Moses, Merrill 5 

Mellen Bray & Co 100 



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Morrill Bros. & Co $25 

New England Brewers' Association 2,500 

New England Felt Roofing Co. . . 50 

Nun's Bros 25 

Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co. . . 100 

Nichols, Farnsworth & Co 25 

Xoonan & Co., T. B 5 

O'Callaghan & Co., Thomas. ... 100 

O'Reilly, John Boyle 5° 

( >ber, Louis P 25 

Osgood, John Felt 25 

Potter. Asa P 100 

Paine, J. S 100 

Potter. White & Bayley 100 

Pray, Sons & Co., John H 100 

Peabodv t V Whitney 10 

Pope & Co., Arthur W 50 

Percival & Co., D. C 25 

Parker .V Co.. C. W 10 

Prouty & Co., Isaac 50 

Pilisbury, Albert E 15 

Peabodv, S. Kndicott 2^ 

Proctor, Hunt & Co 50 

Parkbill & Co., S. J 5 

Phillips, Mrs. John C 50 

Rice ec Co., N. W 100 

Rice & Hutchins 100 

Ray. John J 25 

Richards & Co., Geo. II., Jr. ... :i 

Rich. Sewell W 5 

Rand. Arnold A 25 

Rogers. Wood, Loring & Co. ... 50 

Richardson, Spencer W 100 

Roberts Bros 25 

Rousmaniere, Williams ..V Co. ... 25 

Rockwell & Churchill 10 

Ripley, Thomas W 5 



Stearns Lumber Co., A. T $50 

Stone & Forsyth .... . . . 25 

Savage, King & Co 25 

Seccomb. Kehcw iV Sons 25 

Speare's Sons Si Co.. Alden .... 25 

Spaulding & Tewksbury 50 

Sawyer. A. A 5 

Storer, D. Humphreys 25 

Swan. William W 10 

Stowell & Co., A 50 

Sawyer & Son, X 25 

Silver, Burdett & Co 10 

Searle, F. A 5 

Sherwin, Edward 10 

Sands ..V Leckie 50 

Sewing Machine Supplies Co. ... 5 

Torrev, Bright & Capen 100 

Trull. John 50 

Taplev tV: Co., Amos P 50 

Thompson, Brown & Co 10 

Underhay & Co 25 

Vacuum Oil Co 25 

\ inal & Co., J. W 5 

West End Street Ry. Co. . . . 1.500 

Weston & Bigelow 10 

Whiting. William 1! 25 

Ware ..V Sons, Leonard 25 

Winthrop, Robert C too 

White & Co.. Thomas 100 

Woleott, J. Huntington 25 

Wolcott, Roger 25 

Wright & Ditson 25 

Whicher & Co., T. A 50 

Wright & Potter Printing Co. . . . 25 

White Sewing Machine Co 25 

Young, Frank L 10 



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Committee on finance. 



Anticipating that the expense of the great undertaking would neces- 
sitate an early call upon the guarantee fund, the executive committee 
instructed the committee on finance, at the opening week of the Encamp- 
ment, to call for forty per cent of the subscription, which was promptly 
sent in by the subscribers. 

The greater portion of the work of the finance committee fell upon 
Colonel Haskell. His wide acquaintance among the citizens of Boston was 
invaluable to him in this position. He knew those who always contribute 
liberally to worthy objects, and the financial success of the Encampment in 
no small measure was due to his personal efforts. 

At a meeting of the executive committee, held Dec. 9, 1890, it was 
reported that there was $12,132.65 in the hands of the treasurer, irrespective 
of the guarantee fund, from which to pay any outstanding indebtedness and 
for the expense of publishing the unofficial proceedings. 

Chairman Haskell stated, as a matter of commendation, that 98^ per 
cent of all the subscriptions were paid within a week from the time of the 
call, and that the delay of the balance was due solely to the fact that the 
subscribers had gone on vacations, but that the sums were paid immediately 
on their return. 

On motion of Comrade Creasey it was voted to return to the sub- 
scribers of the guarantee fund their several subscriptions. 

As a result of this action on the part of the executive committee, a 
meeting of the finance committee was called at the office of A. Shuman & 
Co., Dec. 15, when it was unanimously voted that the action of the 
executive committee, to refund to the subscribers of the guarantee fund 
the entire amount of their subscriptions, be approved and the instructions 
carried out, and that the following circular be sent to each subscriber :- 

National Encampment, G. A. R.. for 1S90. 

Headquarters Executive Committee. 

Boston, Dec. 15, 1S90. 

Dear Sirs: It gives us <;reat pleasure, in behalf of the executive and finance com- 
mittees of the National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, for 1S90, to enclose to 



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you the accompanying check, covering your subscription to the guarantee fund, which you 
so kiiulU and promptly forwarded to the finance committee during the Encampment. 

It is ,i matter "t great satisfaction to be able to announce, notwithstanding the extreme 
liberality with which every feature of this great reunion of the veterans of the war was 
conducted, that the expenditures in connection with that memorable occasion have been 
confined within such limits as to make a resort to the guarantee fund unnecessary. 

With a most grateful recognition of the munificent appropriations contributed by our 
honored state and city governments, and which were so handsomely supplemented by other 
generous gifts from many of our citizens, and with the assurance of the most grateful 
appreciation of the heart} ami spontaneous contributions of every nature, which made it 
possible for the Grand Arnn of the Republic of the Department of Massachusetts to extend 
so lavish a hospitality to the great body of veterans who were our guests on that occasion 
we have the honor to remain, yours very respectfully, 

In behalf of the finance committee, 

Edward 11. Haskell. 

Chairman. 

In behalf of the executive committee. 

Elisha S. Converse. 

Treasurer. 

Mr. A. Shuman presented the following resolution, which was unani- 
mously adopted, and subscribed to by the following gentlemen present at the 
meeting: A. Shuman, Edward C. Johnson, Jacob P. Bates, A. C. Masury, 
Gorham D. Oilman, Charles Weil, Ephraim Stearns, James II. Freeland, 
Howard VV. Spurr, William W. Kellett, W. T. Van Nostrand, ami which 
was afterward subscribed to by every member of the committee: — 

Resolved, The success of the Twenty-fourth National Encampment of the Grand Army 

of the Republic is now a matter of history, and the memory of the grand reception to the 
assembled veterans from all parts of the country will live in the hearts of all who were 
fortunate enough to participate in the festivities "I the occasion, so long as life shall last. 

It is a well-known fact that the admirably arranged system of the executive committee 
— wherebj every detail was looked after and nothing omitted or left undone — made it 
possible for Boston to outdo every other city that had ever entertained the Grand Army as 
its guests. The culmination was brought about by our men of brains and genius, headed 
by men of great executive ability and energy: and we attribute to Colonel Haskell the 
credit of being one of the foremost in zeal, enthusiasm and that pure essence of public 
spirit that achieves the greatest success in all that appertains to the credit of our city 



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Colonel Haskell devoted unlimited time, taken from his hours of private business interests, 
and gave it to the interests of Boston's celebration. 

As a part of the result of his earnest and untiring efforts, in co-operation with others, 
the state and city made generous appropriations, and he has the satisfaction of seeing, what 
is rare in the annals of disbursement of funds for great undertakings, the return to the 
guarantors, as Iras just been done by unanimous vote, of the entire amount called for on 
their several subscriptions. It is therefore, 

Resolved, That the members of the finance committee of the National Encampment 
of the Grand Army of the Republic do extend to Col. Edward II. Haskell, their efficient 
chairman, their hearty and impartial thanks for the conscientious manner in which he has 
discharged the onerous duties which devolved upon him, and for his unflagging zeal and 
energy in the attainment of funds wherewith to carry on a celebration that went to make 
up one of the grandest events in the history of our city. 




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S ITS NAME implies, this committee was not only one 
of great importance, but one with a vast amount 
of work to perform. The scope of its labors consisted 
in providing accommodations for sleeping and the sub- 
sistence of two hundred thousand or more veterans 
and visitors for a week or longer, the securing of halls 
for reunions, camp-fires and headquarters for forty-four 
state departments, making arrangements at the hotels for the entertainment 
of the Grand Army leaders and distinguished guests, and attending personally 
to all details connected therewith. 

Quarters had to be procured for entire Posts, societies, delegations, 
individuals, men and their wives, children and companions. Even the task 
of insuring three good, wholesome meals a day was in itself no sinecure. 
These gentlemen constituted the committee: — 



Harrison Hume, Chairman. 
B. Read Wales, Secretary. 
Thomas Langlan. 

Augustine Sanderson. 
F. C. Brownell. 
M. T. Donohoe. 
Theo. Leutz. 

Charles D'W. Marcy. 
Charles B. Fox. 

Georire L. Goodale. 



W. D. Park. 

John D. Billings. 

Charles B. Rohan. 

Charles 1). White. 

James W. Broadbine. 
Albert S. Buswell. 

Charles C. Adams. 

Charles E. Hapgood. 
M. C. Grant. 



The first meeting was held Jan. 4, 1890, at which B. Read Wales was 
elected secretary. The first business was the matter of hotel accommoda- 



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tions, and it was voted that the proprietors of hotels be requested to present 
themselves at the next session. 

It being evident that a camp would not be feasible, immediate steps 
were taken towards securing suitable halls ; and this matter was placed in 
the hands of Chairman Hume, with full powers. Music Hall, Tremont 
Temple, Horticultural Hall and various other small halls were secured, and 
the use of Faneuil Hall was granted by the city. The hotels were assigned 
to the different members of the committee, to be visited by them, with the 
result that nearly all the proprietors promised to furnish what rooms would 
be needed. 

Late in January a letter was received from Henry Cabot Lodge, M. C, 
enclosing a tender from Secretary Tracy of the lofts in the Charlestown 
Navy Yard. In February, Mechanics Institute was engaged for four days. 
A contract was made with A. L. Haskell & Son for ten thousand mattresses, 
with the privilege of making the order twenty thousand. Mr. E. A. Palmer 
was engaged as clerk, and a set of books opened, containing a list of 
boarding houses and hotels which would provide for visitors, and a canvasser 
was employed to visit the different parts of the city to secure rooms and 
board. 

The next matter to be considered was that of catering. A contract 
was made with Mr. F. W. Flower to furnish, at the price of twenty-five 
cents per meal, the following bill of fare : Boiled eggs, baked beans, brown 
bread, boiled ham, corned beef, smoked tongue, roast beef, roast pork, potatoes, 
doughnuts, bread and butter, tea and coffee — for breakfast, dinner and supper. 

Applications were received from various organizations desiring halls, and 
quarters for such were found and engaged. Paine Memorial, Wells Memorial 
and a number of other halls were obtained. By courtesy of the German 
citizens, Turn Hall in Boston, and Harugari Hall in East Cambridge, were 
placed at the disposal of the committee. Early in March circulars were 
sent, through departments, to every Post in the United States, requesting 
them to make early application for such quarters as they would need. After 
consulting with the committee on reunions, it was deemed best that all 



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buildings required for its use be obtained through the committee on 
accommodations. 

In March, the Winslow Skating Kink was engaged for the special use 
of Posts from distant parts of Massachusetts. Letters were sent to the 
assistant adjutant-generals of the different departments, urging immediate 
information as to what was desired, and headquarters for the various depart- 
ments were provided in the halls hired for that purpose. Quarters were 
assigned for two hundred of the staff of the Commander-in-Chief in th 
Conservatory of Music and Clarendon Hotel. The Boston Theatre was 
tendered for the afternoon meetings of the Encampment. 

On the first of June it was found that twenty thousand mattresses 
would be required, and the order was increased to that number. 

The proprietor of the Murdock Hospital generously tendered its use to 
the committee, including one hundred and twenty-five cots. A part ot this 
building was designated as a hospital, and was turned over to Dr. Otis H. 
Marion, to be used under his direction. 

On the first of July the applications for free assignments showed that 
a very large number of people intended to visit Boston, and it was feared 
that the accommodations would not be sufficient. Through the kindness of the 
selectmen of Brookline a tender was made of land for a camp in that town. 
On the recommendation of Adjt.-Gen. Dalton of the governor's staff, the 
State Armory was placed at the disposal of the committee, the only expense 
incurred being that for lighting, guarding, cleaning and putting it into 
proper condition at the close of the Encampment. Plans were prepared of 
Mechanics Building, State Armory and Winslow Skating Rink, showing how 
many mattresses might be placed in each building. A letter was written 
to the committee on parade calling attention to the need of ice water along 
the route, and that committee took the necessary steps toward furnishing it. 
An application was received from Mrs. Mary C. I.eavitt, of the Massa- 
chusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union, desiring assistance in pre- 
paring booths from which lemonade could be served upon the day of 
the parade without cost to the veterans. Her request was complied with. 
Letters were also written to the various Posts in the vicinity of Boston, 



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urging them to entertain visiting Posts and offering to furnish them mat- 
tresses free : the result was that most of the Posts near the city provided 
for one or more such organizations. 

Early in July preparations were further advanced towards meeting the 
necessary requirements. The sanitary arrangements at Mechanics Building, 
Winslow Skating Rink and the loft in the Navy Yard were perfected and 
large additions made. A contract was entered into with the Drivers' Union 
Ice Company to furnish ice for all the buildings. 

The following Posts reported to the committee that they had arranged 
to entertain visitors: Numbers 2, 7, 12, 23, 30, 35, 40, 56, 57, 62, 66, 68, 
81, 119, 134, 139, 144, 149, 191. The committee on information was requested 
to make arrangements whereby the visiting comrades might be guided to 
their lodging places. 

Among the supplies ordered by this committee were ten gross of wash- 
basins, five gross of dippers and over two thousand cakes of soap. 

Early in July a circular was sent to the commander of every Post, 
requesting him to wire the commandant at Mechanics Building the number 
of men in his command who would need free quarters. An order was issued 
appointing Maj. L. Fred Rice as commandant of Murdock Hospital, which 
was designated as Camp E. P. Nettleton. The State Armory was placed 
under the command of Capt. Perley A. Dyer, and designated as Camp John 
A. Andrew. The model loft at the Charlestown Navy Yard was named Camp 
Farragut, and Capt. Louis E. Fagin appointed commandant. The Winslow 
Skating Rink having been transferred to the charge of the Department of 
Massachusetts, it was decided that the committee had no power to authorize 
the appointment of any commandant thereof : and this, with Music Hall, was 
placed under the charge of Department Commander George H. Innis. 

The number of applications for quarters was so great it was feared 
the accommodations provided would not be sufficient, and a committee was 
appointed to wait upon the mayor to request permission to erect a tent 
upon the Common. The request was complied with and a tent erected 
Aug. 13. 

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members of the committee gave their whole time to preparing for the 
reception of the guests. It was found that additional help would be required, 
and five messenger boys were engaged to be present at headquarters as long 
as needed. 

The first Posts reporting came on Saturday afternoon, and were assigned 
to Mechanics Building. The caterer, who had no expectation of being called 
upon for food before Sunday night or Monday morning, was equal to the 
emergency, and as fast as comrades arrived, single or by Post, they were 
supplied with food. On Sunday the committee reported for duty shortly 
before noon, and was kept busy in attending to the wants of those arriving 
until long after midnight. At two o'clock Monday morning Chairman Hume 
was seen directing several hundred men to Mechanics Buildine. 

Over four thousand rooms had been engaged by the committee. Many 
hundreds had made no previous provision for their lodging, counting, probably, 
upon the well-known hospitality of the citizens of Boston, and they were 
not disappointed. 

On Tuesday the scenes of the former days were repeated, with the 
exception of a slight diminution of business during the time of the parade. 
The large crowd kept all the clerks busy until late into Tuesday night ; but 
none were left uncared for, and the accommodations were ample for many 
more. As an indication of what was dune, 28,560 people received quarters 
free, 4738 were assigned rooms in private houses, and thousands were pro- 
vided for in the hotels. 

The final meeting of the committee was held Aug. 29. The bills 
incurred had all been presented and provision made for their payment ; and 
while the appropriation asked for and set aside by the executive committee 
was S40,oco, it was found that the total amount of indebtedness was less 
than ^24,000. 

At this meeting it was voted unanimously that Capt. B. Read Wales 
be tendered the thanks of the committee for the able and efficient manner 
in which he had performed the duties of secretary, and a similar vote of 
thanks was also extended to the chairman. 

Mr. Hume, as chairman, gave full proof of his efficiency; and to him 



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and all members of the committee the Twenty-fourth National Encampment 
is indebted for the faithful work performed on this occasion — work which 
resulted in the most complete and comprehensive arrangements, surpassing 
all previous gatherings. 

Camp Phil. Sheridan. 



The origin of Camp Phil. Sheridan was a product of the accommodation 
committee. Without such a headquarters, many of the veterans would have 
been put to serious personal inconvenience. The story connected with the 
existence of this camp can be best told by the accompanying orders and 
reports by Col. Charles E. Hapgood, who faithfully and acceptably performed 
his duties as commandant. The orders and reports are herewith given : - 

Headquarters National Encampment, G. A. R., for 1S90. 

Boston. July 31. 1S90. 

The quarters at Mechanics Building during the National Encampment will he known 
as" Camp Phil. Sheridan." Col. Charles E. Hapgood, 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, 
is herehv designated as camp commandant. He will be obeyed accordingly. 
Bv order of the committee on accommodations. 

Harrison Hume, 
B. Read Wales. Chairman. 

Secretary. 



General Orders 1 

No. 1. / Headquarters Camp Phil. Sheridan, 

Mechanics Building, Aug. 1, 1S90. 

1. In compliance with the order of the committee on accommodations, I hereby 
assume command of this camp. 

2. Comrades are assigned for staff duty as follows: William E. Long, Post 143, 
adjutant; Edward B. Richardson, Post 143, chief of staff' and provost marshal; William B. 
Daily, Post 15. inspector; John A. Keefe, Post 191, judge-advocate; William H. Poole, 
Post 11, chief quartermaster; Lewis C. Fernald, Post 4, commissary of subsistence; Gustavus 
F. Walker, Post 15, surgeon; Wilbur F. Lane, Post 200, paymaster; A. Brooks Frye, 



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engineer; Daniel Eldridge, Post 68, ordnance master; J. Cushing Thomas, Post 191, signal 
officer; Will C. Wood, Posl [99, chaplain; Charles II. Nason. Post iq. sergeant-major; 
William P. Henry, I'ost 11. quartermaster-sergeant; Horatio S. I.ibby. Post 4, commissary- 
sergeant; lame- ii. Cherry, M. 1).. Post 7. aide-de-camp; Charles J. Hanson. Post 23, aide- 
de-camp; Fred G. Storey. Post 113, aide-de-camp; John Hunter, Post 149, aide-de-camp: 
George S. Pitts, Post 159. aide-de-camp ; Edwin D. Wattson, Post 191, aide-de-camp; William 
Bradley, Post 200, aide-de-camp. 

3. Calls will be sounded as follows: Reveille at 6 A.M.; breakfast call at 6.30 a.m.; 
surgeon's call at 8 a.m.; dinner call at 12 M. ; retreat and supper at 6 P.M.; taps at 12 
midnight. 

4. The following rules are established for the government of the camp : No intoxicating 
liquors will be allowed in the building. Smoking in any part of the building is strict! \ 
prohibited. No unnecessary noise or disturbance will be allowed at an) time, and after taps 
are sounded the camp must be absolutely quiet, as comrades will need all the rest they 
can get. 

5. All organizations, as soon as they arrive, will be assigned to quarters by depart- 
ments, and the officer in charge of each Post or other organization will report at once at 
these headquarters the number or name of Post or organization, the department from which 
it comes, and the number of comrades present. 

6. The officer in charge of each Post or organization will designate a comrade who 
will at once report in person to these headquarters, and who will be held responsible for 
the good conduct of the organization which he represents. 

I verything which the wisdom of the committee on accommodations could suggest has 
been provided for the comfort of the comrades while in camp, and it is expected that they 
will cheerfullj resume the old habits of discipline for the few davs they are together. 

Signed) Charles E. Hapgood, 

Official : Commandant. 

William E. Long, 

. \djutant. 



General Orders i 

No. -• 1 Headquarters Camp Pun.. Sheridan, 

Mechanics Building, Aug. S, 1S90. 

The following named comrades are hereby assigned for duty on the staff of the com- 
mandant: Azro C. Hubbard. Post 7. officer of the guard; William T. Rilev. Post 32. Samuel 
A. Cushing, Post 6S. Samuel P.. Shapleigh, Post 92. Albion P. Pease. Post 4. Kansas City, 
aides-de-camp; Richard Curtis. Post 42, orderly; Fred II. Robinson, E. T. Starkweather, 



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Harry C. Hutchins, Harry B. Sears, Camp 97. Sons of" Veterans, orderlies; James R. Murray, 
bugler; Peter White, drummer. 

Church call will be sounded at half-past seven a.m. and half-past six P.M., at which 
time the chaplain will conduct services in the hall over the headquarters. It is hoped 
that comrades will avail themselves of this privilege. 

The stall' will report in citizen's dress on Sunday, 10th inst., at two p.m., to familiarize 
themselves with the camp and duties assigned them. 

The entire staff, with orderlies and musicians, will report for duty Monday, August 11, 
at eight A M.. at which time the tour of duty will commence, and after which time no mem- 
ber of the staff will absent himself without permission from these headquarters. 

The commandant is pleased to announce that through the thoughtfulness of Major O. 
II. Marion, surgeon-in-chief, a competent medical staff, in charge of Assistant-Surgeon II. S. 
Hearing, 1st Infantry, has been detailed for duty at the camp, and the sick will be provided 
with proper remedies without leaving the building. 

Through the courtesy of General Thomas Sherwin, president of the New England 
Telephone and Telegraph Company, complete telephonic communication has been made 
with the camp. 

To guard against the possibilities of fire, the board of fire commissioners has placed a 
chemical engine, with an ample force of firemen, in the camp. 

All the arrangements for the rapid and comfortable establishment of the comrades in 
quarters as fast as they arrive are believed to have been made, and the indications point to 
a successful tour of duty. 

By command of 

Charles E. Hapgood, 
William E. Long, Commandant. 

Adjutant, 



Headquarters National Encampment, G. A. R., for 1S90. 

Boston, Aug. 15, 1S90. 

Col. Charles E. Hapgood, 

Commanding Camp Phil. Sheridan, Mechanics Building. 

Colonel: You are hereby ordered to discontinue the camp under your command. 
You will give proper orders for the preservation of all camp property, and make report 
of vour proceedings to these headquarters without delay. 

Harrison Hume, 
Chairman Committee on Accommodations. 



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General Orders | 

No. 3. 1 Headquarters Camp Phil. Sheridan. 

Mechanics Building, Aug. 15, 1S90. 

In compliance with the order of the committee on accommodations. — 

1. The tour of duiv ,11 Camp Phil. Sheridan i- herebv terminated and the camp 
discontinued. 

j. At two o'clock today retreat will be sounded, the colors lowered, the guard with- 
drawn and the staff, orderlies, guards, clerks and telephone operators discharged from further 
duty at this Encampment. 

The quartermaster will take proper steps for the security and disposition of all camp 
property, and report his action to the commandant at No. :A Beacon street. 

4. The adjutant will carefully preserve all records and papers relating to the Encamp- 
ment, and forward the same to the commandant at No. 2 A Beacon street. 

5. The commandant desires to express to the staff, orderlies, guards and clerks his 
high appreciation of their unswerving loyalty to him, their constant attention to duty and 
their intelligent discharge of all the difficult and delicate duties intrusted to them. To the 
telephone operators, who have been in constant attendance day and night since the camp 
was established, the commandant desires to convey his hearty thanks. 

6. In taking leave of the gentlemen associated with him in the conduct of the camp, 

by whose invaluable assistance it has been made a success, the commandant believes 

that the v may congratulate themselves on having done something to contribute to the 

comfort of the ten thousand comrades who have occupied the camp, lie desires them to 

take with them to their homes his best wishes for their happiness and prosperity through 

life. 

By command of 

Charles E. Hapgood, 

William E. Long, Commandant. 

Adjutant. 

Headquarters Camp Phil. Sheridan, 

Mechanics Building, Aug. 16, 1S90. 
Hon. Harrison Hume, 

Chairman Committee on Accommodations. 

Sir: I have the honor to submit my report of the operations at Camp Phil. Sheridan. 

You will find appended copies of the orders under which the camp was established, 
carried on and discontinued. 

I established my headquarters with one clerk and one orderly at the camp on Saturday. 
August o, at ten o'clock A.M., for the reason that a great many letters and telegrams were 
arriving there that should have attention at once. Finding more work than I could do 
alone, I ordered in Sergeant-Major Nason of my staff; and, at two o'clock p.m., three Posts 
from the Department of Maine arrived, and during the day about twenty comrades arrived, 
all of whom were provided with quarters. 

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We reached "high water mark" on Monday, nth inst., and that night there were 
S,7Q5 in camp. The whole number accommodated in the camp was 10,403 ; whole number 
assigned, 8,923. 

No complaint as to quarters or rations was entered at headquarters. The sick were 
tenderly cared tor bv the corps of surgeons in charge of Lieutenant Dearing, assistant 
surgeon. 1st Infantry; and those who required more treatment than could be given them at 
the camp were sent to the hospitals. 

My own medical staff' was in attendance day and night, and they were obliged to send 
six to the City Hospital before the Emergency Hospital was ready to receive them. 

For the great number of comrades which we have provided for, I have only words of 
the highest praise. To the members of my staff and all associated with me in the conduct 
of the camp, I give my hearty thanks. 

Caterer Flower is to be congratulated for the way in which he handled the great crowd 
of hungry men. My commissary reports that the quantity and quality of the food was 
unexceptionable ; and there was but one objector, to whom Mr. Flower tendered his money 
again, but he refused to take it. 

Assistant Surgeon Dearing and his corps of surgeons merit the thanks of the entire 
community for their tender care of the sick. 

Sergeant-Maior Charles 11. Nason of my staff was ordered on special duty to represent 
the commandant late on the night of the 14th. On returning to report at seven p.m., the 
15th. he found the camp abandoned. He also found a large party of men who were without 
quarters for the night. His soldierly instinct grasped the situation at once, and he took the 
party to the armory on Irvington street, which he found closed by order of Adjutant- 
General Dalton. He persuaded the officer in charge to take the men in till he could 
communicate with General Dalton. This he did, and the order was modified so that all 
who might apply during the night were provided with quarters. 

I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

Charles E. Hapgood. 

Commandant. 




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EXT to the committee <>n accommodations, in impor- 
tance, came the transportation committee. It is a 
well-known fact that the rank and file of the Grand 

Arm)' is not made up of men who ride in palace 
sleeping cars. Scattered as the Posts are through- 
out the distant parts of the country, cheap railroad 
tares were imperatively demanded. The somewhat 
independent positions of the railroads at the time of the Milwaukee 
Encampment was not forgotten, and it was determined that, if it were 
within the range oi possibility, agreements should be made with the railroad 
and steamboat companies for the benefit of all concerned. It is gratifying 
to say that this end was accomplished, and that transportation lines excited 
every effort to aid and accommodate the Grand Army; and nothing occurred 
to mar the arrangements other than the untimely strike of the employees 
of the New York Central Railroad. 

It was deemed necessary to secure as members of this committee men 
who had a practical knowledge of railroad matters. Mr. f. R. Watson, 
general passenger agent of the Fitchburg Railroad, was selected as a gentle- 
man well fitted to occupy the important position of organizer of the trans- 
portation committee. I lis work in relation thereto and its gratifying results 
will ever win lor him hearty praise from the Grand Army of the Republic. 
The following gentlemen comprised the committee: — 



J. R. Watson, Chairman. 
I'. E. Orcutt, Secretary. 
E. A. Buffington. 
W. S. Condell. 



S. A. Bolster. 

George II. Innis. 

W. C. Tall man. 
D. J. Flan. I.i 



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E. E. Currier. 

George \V. Walker. 
George G. Bailey. 
Albert A. Smith. 
C. A. Brown. 



E. J. 1 lathorne. 
Eli W. Hall. 

Joseph H. Smith. 

Russell A. Alger. 
Alfred Hocking. 



The first meeting was held March 8, 1890, at the National Headquarters, 
and its organization perfected. It was apparent that this committee had a 
work of importance before it and that upon its labors depended, in a large 
degree, the success of the Encampment. Its duties were arduous and exact- 
ing, demanding from its members continuous exertion, making great inroads 
upon their time and convenience. It was of great benefit to the members 
of the Grand Army, Woman's Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans and the 
general public, and all are doubtless grateful fur the services rendered. To 
Secretary Orcutt much praise is due for his able and faithful co-operation 
with Chairman Watson. 

At the first meeting of the committee, Messrs. Orcutt, Currier, Hall, 
Brown and Innis were appointed a sub-committee to appear before the 
Boston Passenger and the New York and Boston Lines Associations to 
represent the cause of the Grand Army and arrange for rates within two 
hundred miles of Boston. 

Several meetings were held and the committee's efforts finally resulted 
in a favorable tariff. Chairman Watson, as president of the railroad unions, 
was enabled to do very effective work in bringing about the establishment 
of low rates. 

The New England fares having been made satisfactory, the committee 
turned its attention to those for the entire country. This involved voluminous 
correspondence with the railroad companies, resulting in a manner entirely 
acceptable to the committee, and establishing a uniform rate of one fare for 
the round trip, with a time limit dating Aug. 31, 1S90. This limit of time 
the committee afterwards desired extended to Sept. 30, 1 890; and the 
concession was granted In" the different railroad associations, conditional upon 
the opening of a joint ticket agency and the deposit of the ticket with the 
agent in charge until the time of departure. 



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The Boston terminal lines secured commodious quarters at 337 Washing- 
ton street, and provided a corps of clerks to attend to the business. The 
work was, in a large measure, performed to the satisfaction and benefit of 
the visiting veterans. Whatever inconvenience ami dissatisfaction was experi- 
enced was rectified as far as possible by the committee, when such matters 
were brought to its attention. The office was opened Aug. 1 1 and closed 
Sept. 30, remaining open from seven a.m. till midnight a portion of the 
time, and until seven p.m. during the latter daws of its existence. There 
were deposited for extension over 26,000 tickets, for which a receipt was 
given in each case, bearing the number of the envelope in which the ticket 
was placed ami the name of the depositor. These were in turn taken up 
when the owner called for the ticket, which was then stamped with the 
extension limit and the person's name. There remained uncalled for 241 
tickets when the office was closed, and the same were turned over to the 
respective roads to which they belonged. All this was without cost to the 
depositors, the whole expense — and it was very large — being borne by the 
railroads. 

The thanks of the Grand Army of the Republic are due to the com- 
mittee for the care taken for the comfort and safety of all. No accidents 
by rail were reported. Booths were erected at all the railroad stations in 
the city, in which were stationed experienced railroad men to give information 
on all enquiries. 

The ladies' parlor at Mechanics Building was secured for the head- 
quarters of the committee during Encampment week, and supplied with 
time-tables, cards and other printed matter of all the leading railroads ami 
transportation companies. Members were present at this office from nine 
a.m. to half past ten p.m., daily, and, in addition, the services of two expert 
ticket agents were secured to give desired information. 

After the matter of through rates had been settled, the committee 
arranged for low excursion rates to the different places of historic interest in 
New England. Unprecedented cheap fares were obtained to and from 
Plymouth, Lexington, Concord, Lynn, Marblehead and many other points. 
The concession was gratefully appreciated and the roads liberally patronized. 



Committee on <£ratt0porfafion. 



In response to inquiry from the executive committee as to the amount 
of money desired by this committee, it was voted to ask for $100.00; and 
this amount was set aside for its use. Of this only $27.00 was expended, 
and the balance reverted to the general treasury. 

It is but just to say that a large part of the work of this committee 
fell upon a few members, who were punctual in attendance, earnest in en- 
deavor and prompt to act ; and while all contributed in a measure to the 
accomplishment of its object, many, through business engagements, absence 
from the city or other sufficient reasons, were unable to meet as often as 
was desired. To those who did assist in the work, great credit is due. 

At the final meeting, the following resolutions were presented by the 
secretary, F. E. Orcutt, and passed unanimously: — 

Whereas, This committee is aware that the success attending their efforts in behalf 
of liberal rates and careful attention on the part of the railroads and transportation companies 
is largely due to the untiring zeal and personal energy of James R. Watson, general passen- 
ger agent of the Fitchburg Railroad and chairman of this committee; therefore it is 

Resolved, That the thanks of this committee, and, through it, those of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, are hereby tendered to him for his kind attention, earnest devotion 
and prompt action in this matter. 

Resolved, That we tender him our sincere thanks for the able manner in which he has 
presided over the meetings and conducted the business of this committee. 




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! department of information was charged not only with 
the performance of its proper duties during Encamp- 
ment week, but also with the hardly less necessary work 
of making known in advance, to the members oi the 
Grand Army throughout the country, the arrangements 
for then reception and entertainment. 

The following gentlemen constituted its membership: — 



Thomas E. Barker, Chairman. 
Charles (J. Davis, Secretary. 
W. F. Hutchins. 
Peter I). Smith. 
Joseph Gregory. 

George W. Creasey. 
lolm II. Cook. 



Henry 15. Peine. 

Charles D. Nash. 

John I). Billings. 
W. A. Stevens. 

Charles A. Ruggles. 

I [enry E. Turner, Jr. 
William M. Olin. 



The committee chose as chief of the bureau, Comrade P. II. Raymond 
<it Cambridge. lie was the executive officer of the department, and devoted 
his entire time to its work, and was paid a moderate compensation. Other 
than the chief, there were no paid employees of the bureau prior to Encamp- 
ment week. 

Beginning early in June, the progress of the general arrangements was 
communicated to the Order through the Grand Army Record, under the 
direction oi the executive committee, copies of the paper being mailed to 
every Post in the country. About the middle of July, however, a compre- 
hensive circular was addressed to all Department Headquarters and Posts, 



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which stated concisely all the arrangements for the Encampment, giving the 
principal details of the more important features, together with the programme 
of the convention of the Woman's Relief Corps, which courtesy was grace- 
fully acknowledged by that organization. 

A corps of comrades and Sons of Veterans was organized to act as 
guides, under the direction of the chief of the bureau. At each of the 
railroad stations and principal hotels booths were established, conspicuously 
marked, and intelligent, efficient comrades selected to take' charge of them. 
Those at the railroad stations were manned on the Saturday preceding En- 
campment week ; but though early at their positions, they found the ladies 
of the Relief Corps on similar duty before them. Throughout the week 
they worked together harmoniously and to mutual advantage. In addition 
to the guides at the railroad stations and hotels, a large detail was made 
for patrol duty in the streets during the week. Additional booths were 
established in Mechanics Hall and the Armory on Irvington street. The 
patrolling guides were easily distinguished by ribbon badges, and were pro- 
vided with guide books, directories and other like matter, prepared for the 
occasion, which they freely distributed. 

Headquarters were established on the Tremont street mall of the 
Common, opposite the West street gate, on the Saturday preceding the 
Encampment. Two polling booths, kindly loaned by the city of Boston, were 
set up and furnished with a great variety of guide books and other similar 
matter; and here the chief, with assistants, or the chairman, or other members 
of the committee, were present the entire week, maintaining communication 
with every part of the city, and bulletining all important information. An 
immense amount of work was done at these headquarters, which was of 
inestimable value to the visitors. 

Fifty thousand copies were printed and distributed of a "Directory and 
Programme for the National Encampment," prepared and published by the 
committee. Its contents comprised a list of the committees, the programme 
of the week, locations of National, Department and Post headquarters, 
reunions and regimental headquarters, halls, hotels and other points, the 
Loyal Legion, Woman's Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans, Hospital Depart- 



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merit, places of historical interest and miscellaneous information of impor- 
tance. It was intended to be a guide book, and that field was also fully 
covered by the enterprising business firms of Boston, who issued innumerable 
pamphlets for free distribution. 

A most valuable auxiliary of the bureau was a detail of the Sons of 
Veterans, under the personal charge of Col. W. A. Stevens, their Depart- 
ment Commander. Neatly uniformed, alert, intelligent, willing and faithful, 
they were of great service to the bureau and reflected credit upon the 
organization which they represented. 

The operations of the bureau, though long continued, were conducted 
with scrupulous economy, the estimated expenses being $1,500 and the 
actual outlay but Si, 100. 

Chairman Barker proved to be of great value to the executive committee. 
To his personal supervision a large share of the success of the bureau is 
due, and the able manner in which he planned and carried out the details 
of the important work on hand will ever reflect to his credit. 








f^f^lV j INFORMATION ? 



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(jiniiiiHtiC on Parade. 

HE principal duty of the committee on parade was 
to make the necessary arrangements for the magnifi- 
cent pageant which took place on Aug. 12, the official 
opening day of the Encampment. The members of 
this committee are here given : — 



T. R. Mathews, Chairman. C. A. R. Dimon. 

Fred G. King, Secretary. Albert T. Whiting. 

George S. Merrill. Fred C. Brownell. 

William Cogswell. George II. Innis. 

Geo. L. Goodale. Charles B. Rohan. 

Samuel Dalton. 



The first meeting was held April 5, the chairman presiding. At that 
meeting E. G. King was unanimously elected secretary. The experience 
which these two gentlemen had acquired by a long familiarity with military 
affairs proved invaluable to the committee, and much praise is due them 
for the able manner in which the)' fulfilled their task. At the meeting held 
May 27, Commander-in-Chief Alger was present, and the committee mapped 
out the line of march, which was officially accepted by him, although slight 
changes were afterwards made. 

It was first decided, agreeably with the views of the Commander-in- 
Chief, that there should be no carriages in the parade and that disabled 
veterans should be provided with seats on one of the grand stands, where 
they might view the procession. This decision caused such a feeling of 
regret that the Commander-in-Chief reconsidered his order, and permission 




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was given that all veterans who, on account of injuries, were unable to march 
in the procession, but who desired to participate in it, would be provided 
with carriages, to take a position at the left of the line. 

Conferences were held with the West End Street Railway Company 
relative to the running of cars on the day of the parade, which resulted 
in the withdrawal of the cars from the route of the procession. It is 
a pleasure to state that the officials of this railway gave all the aid at their 
command to the Encampment. 

The Hoard of Police Commissioners were petitioned to provide the 
necessary patrol duty, and officers were detailed whenever and wherever 
desired. The police system was complete and the service efficient. There 
was no disorder and but few arrests. The Board ami entire patrol force 
are entitled to great praise ami gratitude. 

The committee also contracted for an abundant supply of spring water 
along the line of the parade; and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union 
kindly volunteered, and were given permission, to erect stands inside the 
line, from which lemonade was dispensed without cost. These arrangements, 
as well as that permitting lunch teams to cross the lines, were greatly 
appreciated by the marching veterans. 

Committee on Reunions. 

As before stated, reunions have become a marked feature of ever)- well- 
organized Encampment. It is at the reunions of companies, regiments, 
brigades and divisions that the old soldiers have the best opportunities to 
meet their comrades of the war. The bond between them was welded in 
the lire of battle. They delight to recount the old, yet ever new, story of 
their achievements. 

The following gentlemen were members of the committee on reunions: — 

J. Payson Bradley, Chairman. Arthur A. Smith. 

Charles O. Fellows, Secretary. Charles L. Mitchell. 

James A. Fox. William Provin. 

J. G. B. Adams. Alexander Blackburn. 

J. Willard Browne. George N. Munsell. 

Albert C. Andrews. 

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Thanks to the generosity of the school committee, all the school 
buildings centrally located were turned over to the committee for use 
during the Encampment, thereby relieving it of a heavy financial burden 
and bringing its entire expenses, which at first looked as though they might 
go into the thousands, below $300.00. Into these halls of learning came 
the men who had graduated twenty-five years ago from a school whose rules 
were rigid and discipline severe. The casualties of battle left many of them 
crippled. The great problems then worked out cost many thousands of lives, 
and, like boys after a long summer's vacation, they greeted one another 
with a heartiness which can only come from those who have faced death 
together on many a hard-fought field. 

Chairman Bradley filled his important position in a most satisfactory 
manner and, in conjunction with Secretary Fellows, Messrs. Adams, Smith, 
Andrews and others of the committee, personally saw that every facility 
was at hand for holding the many reunions during the Boston Encampment. 
He was also Acting Assistant Adjutant-General of the Department of 
Massachusetts, G. A. R., during the grand parade, and chairman of the 
National Encampment committee of Dahlgren Post 2. 

Stirring the reminiscences ! Thrilling the scenes ! Pictures are drawn, 
more real than fancied, of the hard fare and vicissitudes at the front ; the 
beds in the swamps ; the quick severing of ties of earthly comradeship by 
the secret shot of the remorseless foe on the picket line ; the death traps 
everywhere; the cruelties in the prisons; the wasting sickness, with no 
loving hand to assuage the suffering ; the weariness of the long struggle ; 
the yearnings for the ending of the cruel war, and for home and loved 
ones. But 

"The neighing troop, the flashing blaile, 
The bugle's stirring blast ; 
The charge, the dreadful cannonade. 
The din and shout are past." 

All honor to the brave men — the living and the dead — who drove 
treason from its strongholds, compelled the misguided South to acknowledge 
the supremacy of the Union, and made possible these peaceful and pleasant 
scenes. 

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Al these reunions great good was accomplished in the assistance given 
to deserving comrades who were seeking the whereabouts of those who 
knew the important facts of their war history and could furnish the desired 
affidavit which in time would bring the deserved and much-needed pension. 

Passing through the corridors of their quarters one would hear familiar 
greetings and exclamations of surprise and gladness, followed by some 
pathetic story of one who, broken down in health, and struggling on in 
hopes that days of plenty would come to him and his, too proud to ask for 
aid, gradually grew weaker, until at last the Grand Army comrades come 
to his assistance ; but alas, too late ! His country's flag, which he had 
defended, was the only mantle they could offer, and under its folds they 
carried him to his long home. Delightful the memories, swift-winged the 
hours, until at last the farewell song was sung and the promise made to 
meet again at the next Encampment. To some, it will be on earth ; to 
others, the everlasting reunion with those who have passed to the Grand 
Army above. 

More than three hundred reunions were held during the week. 

Committee mi Entertainments. 



The duty of seeing that every veteran had an enjoyable time, and the 
preparation of a programme of events for Encampment week, fell upon the 

entertainment committee, comprising the following gentlemen: — 

George II. Innis, Chairman. R. M. Field. 

J. B. Maccabe, Secretary. J. H. Ci-uff. 

Charles (). Fellows. W. H. Thomes. 

E. A. Bumngton. C. S. Clerke. 

A. A. Folsom. Austin S. Cushman. 

John Boyle O'Reilly. A. B. R. Sprague. 

II. A. McGlenen. Francis A. Osborne. 

William Cogswell. John D. Billings. 

John W. Kimball. John \V. Horsey. 

George S. Merrill. Richard F. Tobin. 

Horace I'.innev Sargent. Charles D. Nash. 

John G. II. Adams. Myron P. Walker. 

(icrge W. Creasey. George L. Goodale. 

George S. I. \ ans, 

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Camp-fires, receptions and excursions were arranged, together with a 
clam-bake at Plymouth, in conjunction with citizens of that town, which 
generously appropriated $ 1,000 to help meet the expenses of the excursion. 

The details connected with these entertainments necessitated a great 
amount of labor and care in the multitude of appointments and making of 
contracts. 

In addition, the committee arranged a notable steamboat trip down the 
harbor in honor of the delegates to the encampment, to behold the evolu- 
tions of the naval squadron and the sham conflict between the forts and 
the fleet. 

Committee on 'Decorations. 

The decorations displayed were a matter of surprise and admiration to 
the hundreds of thousands of visitors in the city. 
The committee on decorations consisted of : — 

Richard F. Tobin, Chairman. Azel Ames. 

R. 15. Henderson, Secretary. A. W. Hersey. 

George G. Bailey. Isaac P. Gragg. 

William S. Butler. J. Edward Mollis. 

John B. O'Brien. Thomas A. Ball. 

George A. Sawin. 

Early in the season a circular letter was sent out to the business firms 
and citizens residing along the proposed line of march, asking their co-opera- 
tion. The response was prompt and general. 

The committee designed and supervised the erection of triumphal arches 
on the route of the parade, and decorated the reviewing stands, together 
with Camp Phil. Sheridan, Tremont Temple, Music Hall, the executive com- 
mittee headcpiarters and other buildings. In this work it was ably assisted 
by the Woman's Relief Corps. 

The state authorities beautifully adorned the capitol building, and the 
city most tastefully draped the City Hall. 

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(Various Ctflcr Committees. 



Chairman Tobin was untiring in his work on this and other committees, 
: which will be remembered with sadness ; for his tired system gave 
way to nervous prostration soon after the close of the Encampment, and a 
few weeks later his body was borne to the grave by his comrades. 

nmittet on Reception. 



The reception committee consisted of: — 

(I, .\. J. Q. A. Brackett, Chairman. George II. Innis. 
Charles B. Rohan, Secretary. John F. Andrew. 

W. E. Bai John M. Deane. 

Mayor Thomas X. Hart. John W. Hersey. 

William P. Wilson. Charles E. Osgood. 

Horace G. Allen. Henry E. Smith. 

A. 1!. R. Sprague. Joel Goldthwaite. 

Arthur A. Fowl". John W. Kimball. 

Fred (i. King. Charles J. No 

Paul II. Kendricken. E. A. Stevens. 

J. 11. O'Neil. II. G. Allen. 

Arthur A. Smith. George S. Merrill. 

Myron P. Walker. Albert Clarke. 

William II. Lee. H. 11. Sprague. 

Nathan Appleton. F. C. Brownell. 

S. W. B A. S. Fowle. 

Joseph O. Burdett. 

The duties of the committee, as may be interred, were wholly social. 

Committee on Printing. 

The committee on printing consisted of the following well-known gen- 
tlemen : — 

George S. Evans, Chairman. II. N. Sawyer. 

E. B. Stillings. Secretary. John IX Billings. 

John II. O'Donnell. Charles W. Reed. 

Peter 1). Smith. 







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This committee managed the publishing of the Grand Army Record, 
furnishing all the information that was desirable in connection with the 
p-atherine ; also a guide book for the benefit of comrades and others, which 
contained information indispensable for the guidance of the visitors. All 
the circular matter, the necessary printing for headquarters and the many 
committees, the elegant admission cards, the engraved invitations to noted 
guests and other forms were provided by this committee. 

It was also the means of securing, free of expense to the Encampment, 
a handsome souvenir published by George H. Richards & Co., containing 
an article on the Grand Army, written by Chairman Evans, and illustrations 
furnished by comrade Charles W. Reed, together with the roster and a 
condensed history of the Grand Army, Sons of Veterans, Woman's Relief 
Corps, Loyal Legion and other simi-military organizations, with useful infor- 
mation and pictures of historical places in Boston and vicinity. 

The committee regard with pride the fact that the expenditures were 
within the estimate made at the beginning of the preparations. 

Committee on the Press. 



The press committee provided every possible means to facilitate the 
obtaining of information by the representatives of the press throughout the 
country. The papers of Boston not only devoted large space to the reporting 
of the proceedings, but cheerfully gave room to the publishing of orders, 
reports, appeals for financial aid, and lent every possible assistance towards 
promoting the glory and interest of the occasion. 

The generous contributions of money by the proprietors of the Boston 
dailies and the extensive reports published attest the great interest of the 
press in promoting the success of the Encampment. 

The committee consisted of 



George S. Merrill, Chairman. 

Joseph B. Maccabe, Secretary. 
William M. Olin. 

W. Wallace Waugh. 



F. C. Brownell. 

Charles B. Rohan. 

Weston F. Hutchins. 

Thomas F. Anderson. 



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Committee on ^Badges. 

The committee on badges designed and issued the badges for all the 
committees and national delegates, modelling the former on one general 
form, emblematical in design. The members of this committee were: — 



George II. Innis, Chairman. 

George W. Creasey, Secretary. 
Richard F. Tobin. 



George S. Merrill. 

George L. Goodale. 



Committee on Grand Standi. 

The committee on grand stands located and supervised the erection of 
the commodious reviewing stands in the various sections of the city for use 
during the great parade, with a seating capacity of 5,500 persons. Great 
care was exercised in the construction to prevent possible accident. The 
following gentlemen served on the committee: — 



George II. Innis, Chairman. 
John II. Cook. Secretary. 
C. \. Wallace. 



Charles B. Rohan. 
Eli W. Hall. 



Mr. Innis subsequently resigned, ami C. N. Wallace was chosen 
chairman. 

Committee on Invitations. 

The duties of the invitation committee consisted in extending invitations 
to notable persons throughout the country to be guests of the Encampment. 
Its duties were light, yet important, and were in charge of the gentlemen 
named below : — 



|ohn I). Long. Chairman. 

George L. Goodale. Secretary. 
Silas A. Barton. 
John II. Cook. 

George II. Innis. 



Klisha S. Converse. 
George S. Merrill. 
James F. Meech. 

William M. Olin. 



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Y General Orders No. 5, from national headquarters, the 
Commander-in-Chief appointed Comrade Wm. Cogswell 
as senior aid and chief of staff ; and immediately upon 
receipt of this notification the other aids from the 
Department of Massachusetts communicated with their 
department commander, George L. Goodale, and, by 
permission, held a meeting at department headquarters 
earl\' in January, 1890. The following committee was 
then chosen : — 



W. W. Montgomery, Chairman. 

A. R. Bailey, Secretary. 

E. B. Stilling*. 



Benj. F. Lovell. 

Henry F. Spach. 
Eli \V. Hall. 



This committee immediately began to assist in the staff work of the 
National Encampment, and did all in its power to make the parade suc- 
cessful. It furnished all the aids from this and other departments, and 
those of the National Staff, with horses and equipments, and provided 
quarters and subsistence for the entire week. 

Headquarters for the national aids were established at the parlors of 
the New England Conservatory of Music, which were open all hours of the 
clay and night during the week, and where light refreshments were served 
when desired. 

The Chief of Staff fully appreciated the assistance given him by the 
Massachusetts aids, who acted as his orderlies and who performed their 
duties promptly and efficiently. No higher encomium can be given than 



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the declaration oi Gen. Cogswell, who said: "It is very creditable to the 
Massachusetts aids that the work was so well done, when we consider that 
it was all voluntary. The promptness and discipline were as good as in the 
old army days." 

The executive committee of the Massachusetts aids to the Commander- 
in-Chief received financial assistance from the executive committee of the 
National Encampment to the amount of $300; but the balance of the funds 
used were a voluntary contribution by the Massachusetts staff. 

In response to an invitation, the entire National staff met at head- 
quarters early on Thursday, Aug. 14. to participate in an excursion given 
by the Massachusetts members. Leaving headquarters at nine o'clock, they 
visited the Soldiers' Home at Chelsea, stopping on the way to accept the 
hospitality of Theodore Winthrop Post 35. 

After an hour at the Soldiers' Home inspecting the building- and grounds, 
they visited Lynn, where they were entertained by General Lander Post 5. 
after which they were taken to the Post hall and welcomed by Post Com- 
mander Eli W. Hall, proceeding thence to Nahant, where a shore dinner 
was provided by the Massachusetts aids. 

It was voted that the staff form an organization, to meet at Detroit at 
the next annual Encampment. W. W. Montgomery was chosen president, 
E. B. Stillings treasurer, and A. R. Bailey secretary; and the three officers 
were authorized to make all necessary arrangements for the meeting. 

At six o'clock the party returned to Boston by boat, having spent 
a very enjoyable day. 




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STATE HOUSE, BOSTON. 



Clje Q)eferane itt QBoefon. 




fFVER since that memorable day in 1865, when the solid 
column of survivors of the Civil War passed in unbroken 
line down the broad and magnificent Pennsylvania avenue', 
Washington, in official review, have so many veterans 
assembled together as in Boston during the early days 
of August, 1890, the occasion being the Twenty -fourth 
National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
It marked the turning point of a quarter of a century since 
the soldier and sailor returned to resume the civil pursuits of life ; and the 
best energies were employed to make it a notable Encampment. 

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the bleak Canadian line to the 
cotton fields of southern Texas, came the veterans. In fraternal greeting 
the comrade from the East grasped the hand of the comrade from the West. 
In the war they had fought side by side, elbow to elbow ; but when peace 
came, their paths in life diverged. After the lapse of years, they met who 
had not seen each other since the Rebellion, to rehearse the stirring scenes 
of the past. Comrades were greeted who were thought to be resting in 
soldiers' graves. 

The occasion was one of great happiness to the veteran. From the 
day Boston welcomed the citizen soldier to the hour when he bade adieu to 
his host of heart-bound friends, his life was full of pleasure. What a con- 
trast were these scenes to those of the war! It seemed as if it were a 
dream, as he looked back to those dark days, — when 



'The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder; 
The rattling musketry, the clashing blade, 
And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, 
The diapason of the cannonade." 



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For a. number of days preceding the Encampment, the comrades poured 
into the city — enthusiastic, eager and expectant: a mighty host — from the 
far North, the sunny South, the East, and the great West, in peace and 
good will to be the honored guests of a waiting and welcoming city. 

The stirring strains of martial music, 

"The fife'- shrill note, the drum's loud beat," 



were heard on every side, awakening the memories of by-gone years. 
the contrast ! Then the turmoil of war, but henceforth — 



Vivid 



Peace : And no longer from the hrazen portals 
The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies: 

But, beautiful as the songs of the immortals, 
The holv melodies of love ari-e." 




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OSTON was ready in a general way to receive the 
soldier-citizens a week before the opening of the 
Encampment ; but the finishing touches were added 
the preceding Saturday, when the advance guard of 
the veteran army put in its appearance. The state- 
ment that the citizens were prepared for the influx 
of visitors meant that all the preparations which had 
been going on for months by the committees of 
arrangements were completed — that every known duty 
had been attended to, and that quarters had been secured for thousands, 
who might obtain their meals and lodgings at a moderate cost. 

It meant that halls had been provided for department headquarters, 
reunions and camp-fires ; that the wants of one hundred and fifty thousand 
strangers, — citizens from every part of the country, — their wives, children 
and companions, had been anticipated in the registering for their possible 
needs of lodging and boarding places, rooms in hotels and private homes ; 
that everything reasonable had been done, and that the great machine of 
the National Encampment was ready to be set in motion, to revolve without 
friction, to move so smoothly that there could be no break or jar to mar its 
operations. 

Boston was in its holiday attire. It has been said that never in the 
history of this country have the decorations of a city been more profuse, 
artistic or magnificent, no matter what the occasion may have been, than 
those of Boston during that eventful week. Veterans who arrived at one of 
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nificent triumphal arch at the junction of Hanover street, bearing the 
inscription, "Boston Welcomes the Soldier Citizens," and on the reverse, 
"We Will Meet Again." The pictured designs represented " General Grant 
on the North Anna," and "Serving Rations at Appomattox." Passing on, 
visitors saw the tasteful decorations of the Old State House at the head of 
State street. A short walk brought him to "Newspaper Row," so called, 
where are located the offices of the majority of Boston's great dailies, and 
where was shown the rivalry for popular approval in the excellence of display. 
Every building was covered with bunting and flags. Numerous banners were 
suspended across the street ; not only on the line of the parade, but every 
parallel and intersecting street was profusely decorated. 

The adornments were by no means confined to the business blocks and 
public buildings; for hardly a private residence could be found that did not 
display beautiful draping of red, white and blue. 

The second triumphal arch was located on Washington street, near 
Blackstone square. This bore reproductions of "Sheridan's Ride " and 
"Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg," with the motto "Welcome, Comrades." 
A floral arch most beautiful in design was at the gateway of the Public 
Garden on Arlington street, where was reproduced a picture of the naval 
engagement between the Monitor and Merrimac. 

The State House, City Hall, Faneuil Hall, Mechanics Building, Tremont 
Temple, Horticultural Hall, Music Hall and National Encampment Head- 
quarters were elaborately decorated. Words of welcome and patriotic expres- 
sions, scenes of famous battles, portraits of noble generals and symbolical 
banners enhanced the beauty of the display. 

No decorations were more appreciated than those in the Public Garden. 
Mayor Hart conceived the idea of reproducing the Grand Army badges by 
floral designs, and instructed City Forester Doogue to use his best taste to 
that end. That official succeeded in carrying out the instructions on a 
magnificent scale, and the Public Garden presented a scene of beauty never 
before witnessed in a floral display in Boston. Around the base of the 
equestrian statue of Washington were the badges of the Grand Army of the 
Republic, Woman's Relief Corps, Loyal Legion and Sons of Veterans, set 







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in appropriate colors. From the attractive entrance on Arlington street, 
where the visitor passed under a verdant arch, to Charles street, were 
surprises in gardening skill. The Common was charming in its summer 
verdure, in its walks and carefully-trimmed lawns. 

One of the most important and necessary features of the Encampment, 
which was ready for service upon the arrival of the veterans, was the 
emergency or Murdock Hospital, in charge of Maj. Otis H. Marion, surgeon 
of the First Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry. It was fully equipped 
with one hundred beds, and was open day and night during the Encamp- 
ment for the exclusive use of the Grand Army veterans. There were also 
in requisition two other hospitals, with ample service for any accident, 
together with ten ambulances. A large corps of physicians and surgeons 
volunteered their services for the week, and a thoroughly appointed medical 
staff was organized ; so that, no matter what casualty might unexpectedly 
arise, the wounded and sick would receive the best attention that could be 
given by experienced medical men. Along the line of march on the day of 
the parade numerous emergency stations were established, designated by the 
red cross flag. At each station were members of the ambulance corps, 
equipped with stretcher, bandages, splints and restoratives for instant use. 

All the halls and hotels where Grand Army men were quartered were 
connected by telephone with the various hospitals, so that a physician or 
ambulance could be called at any time. It is a pleasure to state that there 
were but few cases of serious sickness among the thousands of visitors, and 
no accidents. The majority of patients needed only treatment for exhaustion 
or incidental complaints. There were but three deaths recorded, only one 
of which was at the hospital. 

Surgeons and members of the ambulance corps accompanied the various 
excursions during the week. 

Camp Phil. Sheridan, with its accommodation for ten thousand veterans, 
opened late Saturday night, Aug. 9; and Camps Farragut and Nettleton 
were ready for occupancy at the same time. The first Post to arrive was 
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Montreal and the "Sun" route, arriving in Boston Friday morning, followed 
on Saturday by individuals and scattering Posts, then by state delegations, 
and lastlj by the thousands which poured into the city from every state and 
territory of the Union, by railroad or steamboat. 

The city would have been uncomfortably crowded had it not been for 
of the suburban cities and towns, which entertained many of 
the Posts, giving them every care and attention as well as furnishing them 
supplementary entertainments and exclusions. 

The National Encampment headquarters on Beacon street was besieged 
by veterans in search of quarters, who had neglected to notify the committee 
of their coming. Some desired expensive places, while others would be 
content with a shelter for the night. The committee on accommodations 
had expected just such an exigency as this, and, fortunately, were prepared 
for it. The paying applicants were sent to various sections of the city, 
while those desiring free quarters were turned over to Col. Hapgood, in 
command of Camp Phil. Sheridan. 

The railroad stations on Monday were crowded with people waiting the 
arrival of trains to greet looked-for friends, while local Posts were present to 
welcome expected delegations. 

Owing to the strike then in progress on the New York Central Rail- 
mad, coupled with the usual delays incidental to such occasions, many of the 
trains were late in arriving ; but when the}- finally rolled into the stations, the 
visitors were given a royal reception. Lines were formed, and the comrades 
marched under escort to their quarters. Constantly till Tuesday morning, 
Aug. [2, the Western trains poured their living freight into the city. 

The municipalities surrounding Boston vied with each other in honoring 
and entertaining visiting Posts. Historic Cambridge received as guests the 
members of Newhall Post 7 of Philadelphia. Charlestown entertained the 
California delegation, which included the Geo. W. DeLong Post 45 of Hono- 
lulu, Hawaiian Islands, the first Post ever organized outside the United States. 
The Post travelled seven thousand miles in order to be present, and attracted 
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Meade Post 49 of Eastport, Me., O. M. Mitchell Post 4 of Jacksonville, 
Fla., six camps of Sons of Veterans and other guests. Salem honored, by a 
grand parade and reception, Gen. Alger, Mrs. Logan and other notables, and 
throughout the week kept open house for the many visitors to the "City 
of Witches." Gloucester gave a magnificent reception to the famous Ransom 
Post of St. Louis, of which Gen. Sherman was a member. The official 
guest of Lynn was Phil. Kearney Post 10 of Richmond, Va.; but throughout 
the week General Lander Post 5 of that city, the banner Post of Massachusetts 
and of the whole country, held a series of receptions, entertaining over three- 
thousand veterans. 

S. C. Lawrence Post 66 of Medford entertained the famed E. B. Wolcott 
Post 1 of Milwaukee, Wis., which included all the department officers of 
that state, ami Comrade A. G. Weissert, Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief of 
the Grand Army. The guests were given special excursions to Plymouth 
and the Point of Pines, the whole town participating in the festivities, ft is 
stated, under authority, that the cordial invitation extended by Medford to 
Wolcott Post, which was published throughout the West, enthused the entire 
Wisconsin and other Western departments, giving them a new idea of Massa- 
chusetts hospitality and the welcome awaiting them, and the result was that 
their delegations to the National Encampment were thereby largely increased. 
On the arrival of the "boys" from the West they declared that the half 
had not been told them of Yankee generosity. Maiden provided for the 
wants and pleasures of Edwin Libby Post 16 of Rockland, Me., which, in 
addition to various excursions, included a reception by the mayors of Maiden 
and Rockland on the beautiful grounds surrounding the residence of Hon. 
Elisha S. Converse, treasurer of the National Encampment of 1890. Waltham's 
guest was Veteran Post 49 of Elgin, 111., while Watertown looked after Custer 
Post 42 of Bennington, Vt., and G. K. Norris Post 127 of Monmouth, Me. 
East Boston entertained Aaron Wilkes Post 25 of Trenton, N. J. ; Brookline, 
Geo. H. Thomas Post 12 of Fort Payne, Ala., with its veteran army mule, 
which, it is claimed, will survive all the members of the Post ; Somerville, 
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Post [12 "i Staten [sland, X. Y., and Wakefield, Philip H. Sheridan Post 615 
mI ( >ak Park, 111. 

Charles Russell Lowell Post 7 ol Boston received ami entertained G. 
Van Houten Post , <>i New Jersey. The Governor of that state and the 
Mayor of Jersey City came as guests of Post 3. 

Geo. II. Ward Post 10 of Worcester received on Sunday afternoon the 
is Citj Veterans, Co. A, ?,d Regt, Missouri National Guard. This is 
said to lie "the (inly militia organization in the country composed wholly 
of G. A. R. men." They were escorted to quarters and were quietly enter- 
tained by the comrades of Post 10 during the afternoon and evening. On 
Monday the visitors were given a drive, a lunch, a parade ami a banquet ; 
all of which combined to make a most enjoyable occasion. 

I. ate un Monday the Kansas City comrades came on to Boston. 

Man\ other towns also provided for the veterans ; but from the fore- 
going, it can be seen what generous aid was furnished Boston in her kindly 
endeavor to abundantly care for the great veteran army. Nearly every city 
and town also tendered excursions to the Posts quartered within their limits, 
either to the beaches or localities of historic interest, while citizens every- 
where contributed liberally to the local Posts' entertainment funds. 




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N Monday afternoon, Aug. n, the snow-white cruiser 
Baltimore, of the Navy, entered Boston harbor. Its 
coming was welcomed by a salute from the outer 
fortifications. The booming of the cannon arrested 
the attention of citizens and visiting veterans, and 
crowds hastened to the wharves looking down the 
harbor to welcome by their presence the President of 
the United States. The incoming vessel was met by the revenue cutter 
Gallatin, with the Governor of the Commonwealth on board, together with 
the collector of the port, Alanson W. Beard, Mr. and Mrs. McKee of the 
President's family, the members of the governor's staff, and Geo. L. Goodale 
and Fred. G. King of the executive committee, also several ladies, who were 
transferred to the Baltimore, where the President was officially welcomed as 
the guest of the Commonwealth. 

The approach of the cruiser to the inner harbor, with the President's 
flag floating in the breeze, accompanied by the Gallatin, the Vigilant of the 
health service, and numerous steamers, was in itself a triumphal procession, 
welcomed by the cannon of Fort Warren, the war ships and Navy Yard, 
with salutes blown by the whistles of all the steamers in the harbor. 

The mayor of the city being engaged in welcoming incoming Posts, was 
unable to honor the occasion by his presence. The city was unofficially 
represented, except by members of the council on board the steamer 
/. Putnam Bradlcc, which joined the procession of steamers, together with 
the Vigilant, having on board Chairman Wilson of the board of aldermen, 
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behalf of the mayor a welcome to Admiral Gherardi. Anion- the others 
on board the boat were Col. Mansfield of the United States Engineer Corps, 
Commander Eaton of the United States Navy, Aldermen Reed and Gove, 
Professors Smyth and Churchill of the Andover Theological Seminary, Col. 
llorton. Congressman Oates of Alabama, Sergt.-at-Arms Holmes of the 
National I louse of Representatives, Congressman O'Neil of Boston and 
members of the city government. 

The Navy Yard tug Rocket, with Capt. Selfridge, commandant of the 
yard, Capt. Matthews, executive officer, and Lieut. -Col. Ilobbs, commanding 
the marines at the yard, on board, joined the Meet off Fort Independence. 
These gentlemen boarded the Hag-ship soon after she dropped anchor, and 
paid their respects to Admiral Gherardi. 

Never had there been a grainier naval display in Boston harbor. The 
fleet comprised the Atlanta, Petrel, Kearsarge, Dolphin and other ships of 
the North Atlantic squadron. As the President left the Baltimore and 
approached the shore, the congregated thousands rent the air with their 
cheers, lie was accompanied by Secretaries Noble and Rusk of his cabinet 
and his private secretary, Col. Elijah Halford. 

Carriages were taken and a procession formed which passed through 
Broad, State. Washington, School, Tremont, Boylston and Dartmouth streets 
to tin- Hotel Vendome, where a suite of rooms had been engaged. The 
escort was the First Battalion of Cavalry, Maj. II. J. Kemp commanding, 
companies A and D (or, as they are called by their local name, the Roxbury 
Horse Guards), Capt. D. F. Henderson, and the Lancers, Capt. E B. Wads- 
worth. Throughout the line of march the crowds gave loyal welcome to 
the chiei magistrate of the Nation. At the Hotel Vendome was an enormous 
gathering, and it was with great difficulty that the police forced an opening 
mi that the President might alight. Lining the steps on each side was a 
detachment of the First Corps of Cadets, and along the corridors of the 
suite were guards of the same organization. 

The Presidential rooms were profusely ornamented with flowers arranged 
in appropriate and elaborate designs. 

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to the dining hall, which formed a part of the state suite, where a banquet 
was awaiting, given by the state. 

Governor Brackett presided, the President sitting upon his immediate 
right, then Lieut. -Gov. Haile, Collector Beard, Mayor Hart and Hon. Henry 
H. Sprague, President of the Massachusetts Senate. On the Governor's left 
sat Secretaries Proctor, Noble and Rusk, Private Secretary Halford, Admiral 
Gherardi, Captain Schley, commander of the Baltimore, and Hon. William 
E. Barrett, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. It had 
been hoped that Vice-President Morton, Secretary Tracy, Gen. Sherman and 
Gen. Corse would be present ; but they were en route from Bar Harbor on 
the Dispatch. Gen. Alger was unable to be in attendance, as he was a guest 
at the Parker House entertainment in honor of Lafayette Post 140 of New 
York. Gov. Leon Abbett of New Jersey came in during the occasion, and 
was placed between President Harrison and Lieut. -Gov. Haile. 

Before the close of the banquet President Harrison left to attend the 
dinner which was being given at the Parker House by Edward W. Kinsley 
Post 113 of Boston, to Lafayette Post 140 of New York. At half-past ten 
o'clock he returned to the hotel, escorted by the cavalry guard. 

During his absence the rotunda of the hotel had been a scene of 
extreme animation. The fife and drum corps of Van Houten Post 3, Jersey 
City, and other bands of New Jersey, gave a serenade to Gov. Abbett of 
that state and to Mayor Cleveland of Jersey City, which was enjoyed by 
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kOSTON will never forget nor her thousands of visitors cease 
to remember the grand parade which formally opened the 
Encampment on Tuesday, Aug. 12. One could hardly realize 
the fact that after the lapse of so many years such a veteran 
army could have been brought together. The crowds began 
to assemble early in the morning ; on every side where the 
parade was to pass the available spaces from which a sight 
of the pageant might be had were taken. On the arrival 
of every train at the railroad depots the people rushed to 
favorable sight-seeing positions. Where was Boston to pro- 
vide room for them? The windows, doorways and platforms 
on the specified thoroughfares were quickly filled, and the 
grand and reviewing stands were occupied l>v the distinguished 
guests. The column was advertised to start at half-past ten 
o'clock ; but it was an hour later before the signal to 
advance was given. The line formed on Commonwealth avenue and the 
adjacent streets. The Posts at eight o'clock began to take their places. 
The location of each delegation was designated by flags stationed on the 
park which runs through the centre of that beautiful boulevard, and con- 
sequently there was no confusion. The movements of the veterans, the 
variegated uniforms and the mounted aids riding through the ranks made a 
scene both attractive and picturesque. The decorations along the route 
were artistic and profuse. The procession passed under an almost unbroken 
canopy of stars and stripes. 

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assembled in line ; and it is the generally accepted belief that never again 
will there be so great a gathering of the members of the organization. 

Just before the signal for starting was given, Commander-in-Chief Alger 
and staff rode along the line and was welcomed and cheered most enthusi- 
astically. A grand ovation was given to President Harrison, who, with the 
members of his cabinet and Gen. Sherman, entered carriages at the Hotel 
Vendome and proceeded to the reviewing stand. Then, amid the booming 
of cannon from the war-ships in the harbor and thunders of applause from 
the vast multitude present, the waving of countless banners, handkerchiefs 
and streamers, and martial music from thousands of instruments, the 
magnificent column began its march through the streets of Boston. Under 
the leadership of their beloved Commander-in-Chief marched 40,000 veterans 
beneath the starry emblem of the country they helped to save. Who could 
look upon the Four Hundred of the Medal of Honor Legion — 

'All that was left of them " — 

without emotion ? The survivors of Libby and Andersonville and Belle 
Isle ; the remnants of the forces of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, of Han- 
cock and McClellan, of Meade and Garfield, of Butler, Banks and Devens, 
together with sailors who had seen service under Farragut and Porter, once 
more were keeping step to the drum beat. Sherman, Butler, Banks, Sickles, 
Chamberlain, Berdan, and the President of the Nation, Comrade Benjamin 
Harrison, all honored the occasion by their presence. It was a procession 
of heroes. Many may be nameless in history ; but the exploits they per- 
formed are forever enshrined in the great heart of the Nation. Proudly, 
as when in the first flush of manhood they marched to the battle to maintain 
their country's honor, stepped these heroes of the war, — but with waning 
strength. Side by side were men of faltering steps, bowed forms and whitened 
locks, and those still in the vigor and prime of life who went to the front 
when they were lads. Many leaned upon crutch and staff. Veterans who 
had passed the allotted years of man's life, on this supreme occasion were 
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Their measured tread as they bore aloft the tattered battle flags of the 
Wilderness, Fair Oaks, Petersburg, Antietam and Gettysburg, awakened the 
enthusiasm of all beholders, who thought of the hardships and perils they 
had suffered that the Union might not be rent asunder by fratricidal hands, 
and that four millions of Clod's people then in slavery's chains might be- 
set free. From every heart and lip came a welcome and blessing. 

In solid columns and martial bearing, the sons marched in the footsteps 
of their fathers, — soldiers by intuition and inheritance. With beaming faces 
and eyes flashing with the fire of youthful ambition and patriotic fervor, they 
grandly occupied their position in the parade as rear guard to the veterans. 

And Massachusetts! Was her Department ever more completely assembled 
in line ? It told more than words could express the pleasure it gave her to 
welcome the veterans to the soil where liberty had its birth and has ever 
flourished, — that Massachusetts' arms were opened wide to receive them; 
and it bespoke an unmeasured tender of hospitality to those who saved the 
Nation in its hour of peril. 



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Platoon of fifteen mounted Police Officers, commanded by Capt. E. F. Gaskin of Division 15. 

Carter's Hand. 

Eight mounted Buglers from the First Battalion Cavalry. 

Edward W. Kinsley Post 113. Boston; George II. Sawin, Commander: 70 mounted men, 
acting as escort to (ien. Alger. 

Gen. Russell A. Alger. Commander-in-Chief. 

Stai f — Senior Vice-Commander, A. G. Weissert of Milwaukee, Wis. : Junior Vice-Commander, 
J. F. Lovett of Trenton, N. J.; Surgeon-General, Horace P. Porter of Oneida, Kan.; 
Chaplain. \V. II. Childers of Tallisboro, Ky. ; Adjutant-General, George II. Hopkins 
of Detroit. Mich.; Inspector-General, Lewis E. Griffith of Troy. N. A.; Judge-Advocate 
General, D. R. Austin of Toledo. ( ). : Assistant Adjutant-General, James T. Sterling 
of Detroit, Mich.; (ien. William Cogswell of Salem. Mass., Chief of Staff. 

Aids— Some three hundred in number, representing all the different Departments of the 
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'Department of Illinois. 

Department Commander William L. Distin and Stall'. 

Eleven Past Department Commanders. 

Worcester Band. 

George II. Thomas Post 5, Chicago; 260 men. With this Post were comrades of Nevins 
Post 1 of Rockford, Lyon Post 9 of Chicago and Bartleson Post 6 of Joliet. Gen. Thomas' 
headquarters flag,' carried at Chickamauga and through his closing campaigns, was 
home by Lieut. W. II. Kinney, Co. C, 89th Illinois Infantry, of Thomas Post. 

Will Thomas Post 274, Sterling; L. L. Johnson, Senior Vice-Commander; 30 men. 

Aurora Post 20, Aurora; J. M. Kennedy, Commander; 45 men. 

U. S. Grant Post Fife and Drum Corps. 

U. S. Grant Post 28, Chicago; Kirk N. Eastman, Commander; 150 men. 

Custer Post 40, Chicago; James O'Donnell, Commander; 55 men. 

Admiral Farragut Post 602, Chicago; George R. Seavey, Commander; 10 men. 

Veteran Post 49, Elgin; W. II. Kimball, Senior Vice-Commander; 50 men. 

Dunham Post 141, Decatur: R. G. Roberts, Commander: 20 men. 

George G. Meade Post 444, Chicago; Edward Kirk, Jr., Commander; 35 men. 

Phil. Sheridan Post 615, Oak Park; A. L. Cheney, Commander; 36 men. 

Landau with disabled veterans of Sheridan and Custer Posts. 



D epartment of Wisconsin. 

E. B. Wolcott Post 1 Drum and Fife Corps. 

Department Commander, Gen. Benjamin F. Bryant and Staff. 

"Peck's Bad Boy," the live Wisconsin badger of Mayor George Peck of Milwaukee, was carried 

by Past Junior Vice-Commander George Sutherland, one of "Sherman's Bummers." 

who wore a full suit of trappers' buckskin. 
E. B. Wolcott Post 1, Milwaukee; E. R. Stillman. Commander; 100 men. 
George Harvey Post 37, Racine; Robert Bell, Commander; 12 men. 
Frank A. Haskell Post 146, Columbus; I. II. Ford, Commander; 14 men. 
Cutter Post "55, Warsaw; William Mahoney, Commander; 20 men. 
W. II. Sargeant Post 20, Janesville; J. T. Wilcox, Commander; 6 men. 
C. C. Washburn Post 11, Madison; John W. Hudson, Commander; 40 men. 
Robert Chivas Post 2, Milwaukee; M. P. Walsh, Commander: 12 men. 
Edward A. Clapp Post 15, Hudson; D. B. Jewell, Senior Vice-Commander; 6 men. 
Henry Bertram Post 194, Oconomowoc; 4 men. 
Henry Randall Post 202, Dartford ; 3 men. 

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Department of Wisconsin. — Continued. 

(, I gelson Post. Appleton; 8 men. 
A. !•'. Mathrece Post 149. Waterloo; 4 men. 
II. 1 ■'. Swift Post [39, Edgerton; 4 men. 
Frank II. Potter Post of Cambridge; 2 nun. 
Phillips Post iSj. Price County; .: men. 
Rank and File Post of Milwaukee; 10 men. 
Robert Miller Post 25. 
rhomas Post 174. Lime Ridge; 4 men. 
Charles (,. Beacon Post 4S. Neillsville; 3 men. 
W. II. Hamilton Post. 

Capt. Schilling with the National Flag, accompanied by his daughters, Misses Selma and 
Matilda Schilling, dressed as vivandieres. 



'Depa rtment of Pennsylvania. 

Department Commander Maj. J. F. Denniston and Stall. 

Jennings' Sixth Regiment Cornet Hand. 

George Ci. Meade Post 1. Philadelphia; G. Harry Davis, Commander: 150 men. 

Meade Post Veteran Color Guard, Capt. C. M. Beale, carrying the two original flags which 

waved over the famous Cooper Shop in Philadelphia from 1S61 to 1S65, and 24 tattered 

battle-flags. 
Post 2 Flute and Drum Corps. 

Armed (maid of Post 2. Capt. J. T. Hickman: 32 men. 
Post J. Philadelphia; James (i. Cooper. Commander; 125 men. 
I . S. Grant Post Drum and Fife Corps. 

Gen. I. S. Grant Post 5, Philadelphia; James McLaughlin, Commander; 45 men. 
Comrades of Ellis Post 6. Germantown. 

Capt. Walter S. Xewhall Post 7, Philadelphia; William Gilman, Commander; 90 men. 
Delegation ol the Pennsylvania Bucktails, Post 191, Pennsylvania Reserves. 
Frankenfield's West Philadelphia Hand. 
Baker Post Cadets, Capt. C. J. Handler; 35 men. 

F. 1). Baker Post S, Philadelphia; John S. French, Commander; 185 men. 
Gen. Zook Post Drum and Fife Corps. 

Gen. S. K. Zook Post 11. Norristown; Duncan Forsyth, Commander; 100 men. 
J. F. Reynolds Post 71. Philadelphia; Richmond Joynes. Commander; 40 men. 
McLean Post 16. Reading: W. II. Houck. Commander; 66 men. 
I". S. Griffin Post 139, Philadelphia; E. W. Pierce, Commander; 130 men. 



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Ellis Post 6, Germantown ; Albert Isinger, Commander; 25 men. 

Philip Schuyler Post 51, Philadelphia: W. X. Taggart, Commander; 128 men. 

Birney Post 63, Philadelphia; Augustus Luker, Commander; 24 men. 

J. C. Hull Post 157, Pittsburgh; W.J. Patterson, Commander; 12 men. 

McPherson Post 117. Pittsburgh; L. S. Houghton, Commander; jo men. 

John I!. Clark Post 162, Allegheny City; 11. C. Pair, Commander; 35 men. 

John A. Koltes Post 22S, Philadelphia; Charles Horsch, Commander; 6 men. 

Pennsylvania Reserves 191. Philadelphia; Corp. Bell, Commander; 6 men. 

Athletic Military Band, 25 pieces. 

Anna M. Ross Post 94, Philadelphia; William Coppelberger, Commander; 130 men. 

Lysle Post 12S, Allegheny; Alexander Dawson, Commander; 125 men. 

George Gowan Post 23, Pottsville; Isaac B. Rich. Commander; 20 men. 

Naval Post 400, Philadelphia; Joseph V. Home, Commander; 60 men. 

Courtland Saunders Post 21, Philadelphia; William Bromwood, Commander; 20 men. 

Charles Sumner Post 103 (colored); Philadelphia; A. Haines, Commander; 10 men. 

)ohn A. Logan Post 115, Philadelphia; W. B. Gilmore, Commander; 30 men. 

Post 58, Ilarrisburg; George G. Boyle, Commander; 10 men. 

Robinson Post 20, Hazleton ; Nathan Schaeffer, Commander; 7 men. 

Fred Taylor Post 19, Philadelphia; James N. Calely, Commander; 10 men. 

George Smith Post 79, Conshohocken ; Samuel Coats, Commander. 

Lawry Post 54S, Wilkensburg; Thomas McCune, Commander; 12 men. 

George B. McClellan Post 515, Schwenpsville ; 1. E. Ilunsicker. Commander; 4 men. 

Josiah White Post 45, Phcenixville ; John McCloskey, Commander; 13 men. 

]. ]. Andrews Post 70, Correy ; Seth Weeks. Commander; 5 men. 

lames Ilamm Post 19S, Honesdale; Graham Watts. Commander; 4 men. 



Department of Ohio. 

Department Commander P. II. Dowling and Stall". 

Fremont Light Guard Band of Fremont. 

Toledo Drum Corps. 

Delegates from the Department of Ohio, under command of Capt. J. T. Roper; 100 men. 

1. M. Wells Post Drum Corps of Columbus. 

Grand Army of the Republic Drill Corps of Columbus; Capt. A. G. Chapman; 30 men. 

J. M. Wells Post 451, Columbus: T. Jeffrey, Commander; 125 men. 

Buckeye Brigade, Columbus; Col. C. W. Geer; 30 men. 

Forsyth Post Drum Corps. 



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Kilpatrick Drum and Fife Corps. 

Judson Kilpatrick Post 143, Tottenville, Staten Island ; S. II. Bailey, Commander; 70 men. 

Wade Hand. 

Wade Post 520, New York; John A. Blair, Commander: 35 men. 

Morgan Drum Corps. 

E. D. Morgan Post 307. New York; Alexander Newberger, Commander; 40 men. 

Abraham Lincoln Post 13, New York; Thomas Walsh. Commander; 25 men. 

Sons of Veterans Drum Corps. 

Lew O. Morris Post 121, Albany; George M. Holmes, Commander; 70 men. 

Mansfield Drum Corps. 

Mansfield Post 35, Brooklyn; John Brown, Commander; 300 men. 

Ellsworth Post 619, Saratoga County; J. W. Smith, Commander; 50 men. 

Greeley Fife and Drum Corps. 

Horace Greeley Post 577, New York ; George II. Moore. Commander; 70 men. 

Reno Fife and Drum Corps. 

Reno Post 44. New York; Philip S. Biglin, Commander; 60 men. 

Gen. John A. McConnie Post 185, Troy; 50 men. 

Hamilton Fife and Drum Corps. 

L. M. Hamilton Post 152, East New York ; P. J. Kennedy, Commander; 45 men. 

Tottenville Drum Corps. 

Lenhart Post 163, Tottenville, Staten Island; David C. Johnson, Commander: 17 men. 

R. G. Shaw Post 12, New Brighton, Staten Island; E. Openshaw, Commander; 50 men. 

Plymouth (Mass.) Band. 

U. S. Grant Post 327. Brooklyn; C. J. Collins, Commander: 125 men. 

George C. Strong Drum Corps. 

George C. Strong Post 534, Brooklyn; David W. Wilson, Commander; 125 men. 

Richmond Post 524, New York; Bernard Mullen, Commander; 20 men. 

Hunting Drum and Fife Corps. 

Edward Hunting Post 353, New York; S. A. Hawkins. Commander; 53 men. 

Lew Benedict Post 5, Albany; J. R. Terwilliger, Commander; 35 men. 

P. E. S. Young Post 33, Amsterdam; M. Dove, Commander; 35 men. 

Gilford D. Bailey Post 200, Lowville; H. E. Turner, Commander; 36 men. 

Eighth Brigade; J. P. Cleary, Colonel. 

O'Rourke Post and Drill Corps. Rochester; P. C. Flemming, Commander: 40 men. 

Fife and Drum Corps. 

Mozart Veteran Association, New York; M. Cannon, Colonel; 20 men. 



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^Department of Connecticut. 

Department Commander John C. Broatch and Staff. 
Tubb's Military Band, Norwich. 

Sedgwick Posl i. Norwich; R. Peckham, Commander; [50 men. 
City Drum Corps, Hartford. 

Nathaniel Lyon Post 2, Hartford; II. F. Roberts. Commander; 75 men. 
Elias Howe, fr., Band, Bridgeport. 

Elias Howe. ]r.. Post 3, Bridgeport; John R. Howe, Commander: 75 men. 
Drake Post 4. South Manchester; Henry Barrows, Commander; 40 men. 
McGregor Posl -'7. Danielsonville; E. S. Nash, Commander; 40 men. 
Meriden Fife and Drum Corps. 

Meriam Post S, Meriden: A. \V. Harvey, Commander: 125 men. 
A. II. Dutton Post 56, Wallingford; Jacob Job. Commander; 20 men. 
Morton A. Taintor Post 9, Colchester; M. W. Robinson. Commander: 30 men. 
Independent Fife and Drum Corps, New bury. 

Stanley Post 11, New Britain; C. B. Erickson, Commander; 135 men. 
Burnside Post 62, Unionville; Thomas Brooks, Commander; 23 men. 
Winter Post 4.3, Stafford Springs; Reuben Burleigh, Commander; 30 men. 
Sons of Veterans Drum Corps, Bristol. 

Gilbert W. Thompson Post 13, Bristol; George J. Shubert, Commander; 4S men. 
Nathan Hale Drum Corps, Bethel. 

James E. Moore Post iS. Danbury; A. Morehouse. Jr., Commander; 8 men. 
Hobbie Post 23, Stamford; Eli E. Palmer, Commander: 18 men. 
Kellogg Post Drum Corps, Birmingham. 

Kellogg Post 26, Birmingham; L. P. French, Commander; 54 men. 
Willimantic Fife and Drum Corps. 

Francis S. Long Post 30, Willimantic: Thomas Ilandlev. Commander; 28 men. 
T. G. Brown Post 97, Chaplin; W. C. Burdick, Commander; 13 men. 
I pson Post 40, Seymour; John II. Riggs. Commander; 40 men. 
George Van Home Post 39. Milford; S. A. Warburton, Commander; 25 men. 
John M. Norris Post 66, Weathersfield ; George W. Adams, Commander; 20 men. 
Burpee Post 71, Rockville; D. F. Andrews, Commander; 36 men. 
St. Mary's Band. Putnam. 

A. (,. Warner Post 54, Putnam; William C. Beebe, Commander; 100 men. 
\V. \\ . Perkins Post (.7, New London; M. P. Johnson, Commander: 50 men. 
Samuel S. Brown Post 56, Thompsonville ; F. E. Hastings. Commander: 56 men. 
N. S. Manross Post 57, Forestville; R. A. Potter, Commander; 35 men. 
James B. Kilburn Post 77. Plainfield; James P. Pulette. Commander: 35 men. 
Hancock Post Si. Stonington ; \Y. H. Burdick. Commander; 56 men. 



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Department of Connecticut. — Continued. 

Mansfield Post 53 Band, Middletown. 

Mansfield Post 53, Middletown; M. S. Dunn, Commander; 120 men. 

W. Fowler Post 48, South Norwalk ; Frederick Arnold, Commander; 20 men. 

Wadham Post 49, Waterbury; John S. Hayes, Commander; 38 men. 

Moodus Fife and Drum Corps, Moodus. 

Robert O. Tyler Post 50, Hartford; W. Clark, Commander; 175 men. 

Marvin Waite Post 51, Hartford; . Union H. Bosworth, Commander; 20 men. 

T. M. Redshaw Post 75. Ansonia; A. P. Kirkham, Commander; 53 men. 

Gen. Steinburg Post 76, New Haven; Louis Trappee, Commander; 28 men. 

Buckingham Post 12, Norwalk; A. Hanscheldt. Commander; 40 men. 

Admiral Foote Post Pioneer Corps, New Haven; [as. II. Wilkins, Commander; 30 men. 

Salem Cadet Drum Corps. 

Admiral Foote Post 17, New Haven; N. I. Strickland, Commander; 475 men. 



'Department of 3^ew Jersey. 

Department Commander A. M. Mathews and Stafl. 

Patriarchs Militant Band of Boston. 

Uzal Dodd Post 12, Orange; Dr. W. D. Robinson, Commander; 75 men. 

Bayard Post Drum Corps. 

Bayard Post 8, Trenton; J. W. Royle, Commander; 100 men. 

Lincoln Fife and Drum Corps. 

Lincoln Post 11, Newark; C. E. Clearman, Commander; no men. 

West Jersey League, represented by T. M. K. Lee, Jr., Post 5, Camden; Arthur Stanley, 

Commander; 45 men; and William B. Hatch Post 37, Camden; George W. Ferguson, 

Commander; 20 men. 
Aaron Wilkes Post Band. 

Aaron Wilkes Post 23, Trenton; Budd S. Bodine, Commander; 133 men. 
G. Van Houten Post Band. 

G. Van Houten Post 3, Jersey City; E. Sands, Commander; 170 men. 
Winfield Scott Post 73, Plainfield; Charles B. Stephens, Commander; 17 men. 
Marcus L. Ward Drum Corps. 

Marcus L. Ward Post SS, Newark; Joseph llatterslev, Commander; Co men. 
Dwight Post 103, Englewood; J. II. Buckley, Commander; 15 men. 
Arrowmith Post 61, Red Bank; Charles Curtis, Commander; 20 men. 
Judson Kilpatrick Post 64, Elizabeth; Edwin Marsh, Commander; 10 men. 

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^Department of V^ew Jersey. — Continued. 

Kearney-Janeway Post 15, New Brunswick; J. T. Whittier, Commander; 30 men. 

Chaplain Butler Post 35, Patterson: J. II. Cole. Commander: 40 men. 

[uliii (I. Tolmie Post 50, Phillipsburg ; Allen J. Clifton, Commander: 10 men. 

Gen. George P>. McCIellan Post 99, Frenclitown : John Misson, Commander: 16 men. 

Gabriel R. Paul Post 101. W'estwood: T. A. I taring. Commander: 12 men. 



'Department of. 'CM aim-. 

Department Commander John 1). Anderson and Staff. 

National I lome Band, Togus 

Comrade Hannibal Hamlin. ex-Vice-President of the United States, Selden Connor, I. S. 
Bangs, John 1). Ross, Past Department Commanders H. S. Burbank, S. W. Lane and 
F. M. Drew, Assistant Quartermaster-General B. F. Beals. L. J. Morse, A. R. Lincoln, 
in carriages. 

Cutler Post 4S, Togus; 70 men: T. C. Goodwin, Commander; escort to the Dept. Com. 

Cumberland County Battalion, Portland: Maj. W. 11. Green, Commander. 

Portland Band. 

Bosworth Post 2. Portland; William S. Dunn, Commander; 200 men. 

Drum Corps. 

Thatcher Post in, Portland; A. 11. Prince, Commander; 100 men. 

Mountfort Post 22. Brunswick; Philip R. Goodrich, Commander: 40 men. 

Bridgton and Harrison Posts 27 and 153; G. M. Burwell, Commander; 30 men. 

Standish Band. 

Chas. A. Warren Post, Standish; S. II. Dresser, Commander; 75 men. 

J. 1). Fessenden Post. Freeport; James II. Banks, Commander: 30 men. 

Hand. 

Cloudman Post kh>. Saccarappa; Hezekiah Elwell, Commander: So men. 

W. L. Haskell Post 10S. Yarmouth; Joseph A. Chase, Commander; 20 men. 

Geo. E. Sheplev Post 7S. Gray; II. R. Mountfourth, Commander; [5 men. 

Willard Post 70, Springvale; J. F. Day, Commander: 30 men. 

E. B. Clayton Post 134. Strong; George T. Jacobs. Commander; 25 men. 

II Bolster, South Paris. Commander of the Oxford County Brigade. 

Turner Band. 

I lain Rush Post 54, Norway: 26 men. 

W, K. Kimball Post 148, South Paris; Leonard Briggs, Commander: 13 men. 



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'Department of {Maine. — Continued. 

Fessenden Post, Buckfield ; H. A. Conant, Commander: 15 men. 

A. M. Whitman Post 67, Bryant's Pond; J. L. Bowker, Commander; 16 men. 

Rumford Post 41 ; 9 men. 

Charles S. Stevens Post 76. Castine; George A. Wheeler, Commander; 40 men. 

Vining Post 107, Windsor; Luther B. Jennings, Commander; 20 men. 

T. A. Roberts Post 49, Oxford; W. R. Farris, Commander; 30 men. 

Grover Post 126, Frveburg; T. E. Eastman, Commander; 27 men. 

L. D. Kidder Post, Dixfield; Demerritt Post, Peru: Parker Post, Lovell Centre; 30 men. 

Comrade Isaac Dyer, Commander of the Somerset County Battalion. 

Band. 

Russell Post 96, Skowhegan ; George B. Safford, Commander: 60 men. 

N. F. Blunt Post 109, Bingham; Horatio B. Baker. Commander; 12 men. 

E. O. C. Ord Post 91, North Anson; E. F. Sprague, Commander; 12 men. 
V. A. Weston Post. Madison; H. H. Steward, Commander: 13 men. 
George Goodwin Post 32, St. Albans; H. C. Coston, Commander; 15 men. 
Col. Anson Wardsworth, Commander of the Waldo County Battalion. 
Thos. H. Marshall Post 42, Belfast; W. C. Dilworth, Commander; 75 men. 

F. McGilvery Post 30, Searsport; II. N. Edwards, Commander; 25 men. 
Warren Post 66, Winterport; Benjamin Atwood, Commander; 30 men. 
James E. Hall Post 53, Bucksport; S. P. Lagross, Commander: 28 men. 

E. M. Billings Post 74. Monroe; George B. Ordway, Commander: 25 men. 

E. H. Bradstreet Post 44, Liberty; Ithiel Pease, Commander; 25 men. 

Grant Post 91, New Hampshire: 16 men. 

W. H. H. Rice Post 56, Ellsworth; Francis A. Macomber, Commander; 16 men. 

Custer Post 6, Lewiston ; Chas. S. Crowell, Commander; 75 men. 

J. Knowles Post 52, Corinna; George R. Barker, Commander; 20 men. 

G. K. Norris Post 27, Monmouth; E. A. Richardson. Commander; 15 men. 
W. S. Heath Post 14, Waterville; P. S. Heald, Commander: 30 men. 

II. F. Safford Post S. Dexter; II. A. Johnson, Commander: 10 men. 

Calvin S. Pilley Post 35, Unity; Reuben Rhodes, Commander; 15 men. 

E. H. Beal Post 12, Bangor; A. B. Farnham, Commander; 125 men. 

J. P. Harris Post 60, North Dixmont; L. D. Smith, Commander; 2S men. 

Charles Keizer Post 135. Waldoboro'; Raymond W. Hoffses. Commander; 27 men. 

Drum Corps. 

Bradbury Post 15, Machias ; Stephen lladley, Commander: 30 men. 

Seth Williams Post 13, Augusta; Dr. William McDavid, Commander; 50 men. 

Brown Post 84, Bethel; Arthur M. Bean, Commander: 30 men. 

Joseph W. Lincoln Post 113, Sidney; James H. Bean. Commander; 17 men. 



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Department of Maine.— Continued. 

I (I. Parker Post 99, Kittery; Jethro II. Swett, Commander: 56 men. 

N. VV. Mitchell Post 80, West Newfield; A. II. Langley, Commander; 52 men. 

|ohn W. Brown Post 117. Waterboro; V. C. Goodwin, Commander: 15 men. 

Fred S. Gurney Post 36, Saco; Francis J. Cousins. Commander: 40 men. 

Wade Post 123, Presque Isle: James II. I'hair, Commander; iS men. 

Coopei Post [24, Union; J. Sleeper. Commander: 24 men. 

\ inalhaven Hand. 

Edwin Libb} Post 16, Rockland; John VV. Tims, Commander: 100 men. 

Lafayette Carver Post 45, Vinalhaven ; Wooster S. Vinal, Commander: 23 men. 

Hath Drum Corps — Continentals. 

Sedgwick Post 4, Bath; George T. Silsby, Commander: 75 men. 

Horse captured at the battle of Cedar Creek, and brought home by Gen. T. W. Hyde. 

Webster Post 9, Kennebunk ; Wm. F. Bowen, Commander: 30 men. 

J. S. Sanborn Post 31, Milo; Asa S. Carver. Commander: 40 men. 

Thomas F. Rideout Post 25, Bowdoinham ; Wm. A. Wood. Commander: 15 men. 

Sergeant Wyman Post 97, Oakland; Charles VV. Henley, Commander: iS men. 

Harlow Dunbar Post 59, Newcastle; C. E. Ames, Commander; 40 men. 

Meade Post 40. Eastport; John A. Lowe, Commander: 30 men. 

M.i i B. F. Hill, Auburn, Commander of the Androscoggin Battalion. 

Fife and Drum Corps. 

Wilson Post 17. North Turner: Shirley Merrill. Commander: 30 men. 

Kimball Post ;S. Livermorc Falls: George Tarr, Commander: JJs men. 

Burnside Post 47, Auburn; Charles L. Metcalf. Commander; 100 men. 

Heath Post 6, Gardiner: J. W. P. Johnson, Commander; 50 men. 

Libbv Post 93, Litchfield; A. C. True. Commander; ;o men. 

David Escancey Post 69, Appleton : E. D. Gushnell, Commander; 50 men. 

George S. Cobb Post 63. Camden: J. W. Achorn, Commander; 45 men. 



Department of California. 

Department Commander A. J. Buckles and Staff. 

Lincoln Post 1. San Francisco: L. Hopewell, Commander; 25 men. 

I.e. \V. DeLong Post 45, Honolulu. Hawaiian Islands; VV. II. Wagner. Commander; 5 men. 

J. A. Garfield Post 34. San Francisco: A. VV. Babcock, Commander. 



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Department of Rhode Island. 

Department Commander Benjamin F. Davis and Staff. 

Reeves' American Band. 

Prescott Post I, Providence; William A. Spicer, Commander; 200 men. 

Pleasant View Drum, Fife and Bugle Corps. 

Burnside Post 2, Shannock; Elisha Whitford, Commander; 13 men. 

Ballon Post 3. Central Falls; Theodore F. Dexter, Commander; 125 men. 

Fred E. Davis Camp, Sons of Veterans Drum Corps. 

Arnold Post 4, Providence; \V. F. Hutchinson, Commander; 125 men. 

Gen. Reno Post 6, East Greenwich ; Augustus Paine, Commander; 20 men. 

Carpenter's Drum Corps of Wakefield. 

Sedgwick Post 7, Peacedale ; David Hudson, Commander; 50 men. 

Charles E. Lawton Post 5, Newport; (). B. Langeley, Commander; 75 men. 

Farragut Post S, Riverside; Robert Laird, Commander: 60 men. 

Woonsocket Continental Band. 

Smith Post 9. Woonsocket; T. A. Buell, Commander; 100 men. 

Disley National Band of Providence. 

Slocum Post 10, Providence; William Stone, Commander; 200 men. 

Thomas Post 11, Apponaugh; Robert M. Pollard, Commander; 30 men. 

Ives Post Drum Corps. 

Ives Post 13, Providence; John A. Jenkins, Commander: 100 men. 

Compton Band. 

McGregor Post 14, Phoenix; James Corcoran, Commander; 100 men. 

Bristol Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps. 

Babbitt Post 15, Bristol; II. S. Bennett, Commander; 60 men. 

Charles C. Baker Post 16, Whitford; C. M. Arnold, Commander; 30 men. 

Pawtucket City Band. 

Tower Post 17, Pawtucket; Joseph F. Means, Commander: 140 men. 

Sheffield City Band. 

Budlong Post 18, Westerly; George Bellamy, Commander; 60 men. 

Union Brass Band. 

Bucklin Post 20 and Starboard Watch Squad; Orlando Freeman, Commander; 150 men. 

General Warren Post 21, Newport; J. J. Greene, Commander; 34 men. 

Lincoln Post 22, Hope Valley: E. P. Clark, Commander; 25 men. 

F. W. Goddard Post 23, Berkley; C. II. Collins, Commander; 15 men. 



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Department of ,\v:. Hampshire. 

FIRST DIVISION. 

Department Commander Thomas Cogswell and Staff. 

Rublee's Band of Lake Village. 

John L. Perley, Jr.. Post 37. Laconia; A. B. Woodward. Commander: 100 men. 

Storer Post 1. Portsmouth; M. H. Bell, Commander: 150 men. 

Kearsarge Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps. 

Chadwick Post 70. Deerfield; F. Trueworthy, Commander; 12 men. 

Custer Post 47, Conway: li. F. Clark, Commander; 40 men. 

Daniel White Post 6, Peterboro; A. L. Murphy. Commander; 53 men. 

Lafayette Band of Great Falls. 

Littlefield Post S, Great Kails; Herman llurd. Commander; 75 men. 

John E. Willis Post 59. Gorham ; C. G. Hamlin. Commander; 25 men. 

W. S. Hancock Post S. Alstead ; George P. Dickey. Commander; 40 men. 

Sampson Post 2;. Rochester; John Pugslev, Commander; 40 men. 

( lliver W. Lull Post 11, Mill'ord: E. A. Fessenden, Commander; 50 men. 

llollis Drum Corps. 

Exeter Cornet Band. 

Moses N. Collins Post 26. Exeter: George L. Stockel, Commander; 40 men. 

Dover Drum Corps. 

B. W. Sawyer Post 17. Dover; John R. Ham. Commander: 130 men. 

Hampton Bras> Band. 

Perkins Posl 7S, Hampton; J. W. Warner, Commander; 30 men. 

Natt Head l'ost 72. l'itzwilliam ; Samuel S. Stone. Commander; 25 men. 

John A. Logan Post 21. Seabrook; John W. Locke. Commander; 20 men. 

Danville Drum Corps. 

Walter Harriman Post 90. Danville; Joseph Avery. Commander: 25 men. 

North Salem Drum Corps. 

Joe Hooker Post 51, Fremont; D. W. Coffin. Commander; 25 men. 

Upton Post 45, Deny: William 11. Thomas, Commander; 5S men. 

Ephraim Weston Post 87, Antrim; Leander Emery. Commander; 44 men. 

John Sedgwick Post 4, Keene; Charles W. Castle. Commander: 115 men. 

Sheridan Post 14, Hinsdale: Moses II. Bardwell, Commander: 34 men. 

SECOND DIVISION. 

Everett I'.. Huse, Commander, with six Aids. 
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Department of 3\ps*a' Hampshire. — Continued. 

Louis Bell Post 3, Manchester; John G. Hutchinson, Commander; 175 men. 

Oilman E. Sleeper Post 60, Salem; Orlow Austin, Commander: 31 men. 

Nashua G. A. R. Drum Corps. 

John G. Poster Post 7, Nashua; Milo G. Little, Commander; 100 men. 

Captain Charles Stinson Post 64, Goffstown; E. L. Johonnette, Commander; 20 men. 

James S. Thornton Post S3, Merrimack; C. C. Beard, Commander; 25 men. 

George F. Sweatt Post 38, Franklin Falls; J. B. Dale, Commander; 50 men. 

Admiral Farragut Post 52, Enfield; E. A. Kenyon, Commander; 26 men. 

L. D. Gove Post 56, Hanover; David E. Burbank, Commander; 25 men. 

George B. McClellan Post 8S, Jaffrey ; Calvin Allen, Commander; 30 men. 

Independent Drum Corps, Manchester. 

Wesley B. Knight Post 41, Londonderry; Will P. Nevins, Commander; 40 men. 

Anthony Colby Post 85, New London; Robert McConnell, Commander; 18 men. 

Penniman Post 42, Plymouth: John Chandler, Commander: 42 men. 

Moulton S. Webster Post 68, Sandwich Centre; James Y. Webster, Commander; 12 mei 

Millard K. Cobb Post 29, Pittsfield ; Charles Ashton. Commander; 30 men. 

Albert N. Perkins Post 80, Epping; Frank P. Fisk, Commander; 30 men. 

Louis Bell Drum Corps. 

Carleton Post 24, Farmington ; W. 11. W. Colony, Commander; 30 men. 

State Capital Drum Corps. 

E. E. Sturtevant Post 2, Concord; Albert P. Davis, Commander, 125 men. 

W. S. Hancock Post 9, Alstead ; George P. Dickey, Commander; 36 men. 

Marshall Saunders Post 4S, Littleton; John T. Simpson, Commander; 35 men. 



Department of Vermont. 

Department Commander Z. M. Mansur and Stall'. 

Sherman Military Band. 

Chamberlain Post 1, St. Johnsburv; II. E. Bates, Commander; 150 men. 

Stannard Post 2, Burlington; W. L. Greenleaf, Commander; 125 men. 

Jarvis Post 43, Springfield; A. O. Coburn, Commander; 35 men. 

D. Rattery Post 9, West Burke; W. Silsby, Commander; 4S men. 

George W. Quimby Post 76, Barton; L. H. Preston, Commander; 25 men. 

George G. Meade Post 99, Barton Landing; C. E. Joslyn, Commander: 15 men. 



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'Depar tment of Vermont. — Continued. 

Hancock Posl 105, Montreal, P. (^ : Eugene Hursey, Commander: 40 men. 
Sedgwick Post 8, Brattleboro' ; C. E. Sturgis, Commander; 100 men. 
Hooker Post 5, Londonderry; Samuel Houghton. Commander: 25 men. 
(). (). Howard Post 33. Ludlow ; W. W. Fish. Commander: 50 men. 

I. B. Richardson Post 92, Fairfax; S. Turgis, Commander; 14 men. 
William Reynolds Post 59, Milton; Geo. Lucia, Commander: 12 men. 

1 Posl 51, Newport; Geo. F. Merriam, Commander: 10; men. 
Rutland Cornet Hand. 

Roberts Posl 14, Rutland; (!. N. Chamberlain. Commander: 240 men. 
Washburn Post 17, Bradford; P. S. Chamberlain, Commander; 21 men. 
Col. Preston Post 64, Mills River; II. S. Powers, Commander: 25 men. 
Ransom Post 7, East Corinth: A. II. Batchelder, Commander; 25 men. 
E. H. Stoughton Post 34. Bellows Falls: B. Cannon. Jr., Commander; 9S men. 
Jesse A. Jewett Post 73. Swanton; J. Louisell, Commander; 50 men. 
(, A. Custer Post 42. Bennington ; X. M. Puller. Commander; 42 men. 
George C. Randall Post 82, Woodstock; II. Boynton, Commander: 62 men. 
A. Keeler Post 91. Hyde Park; L. P. Butts, Commander; 32 men. 
I . S. Grant Post 96, West Randolph: G. A. llovt. Commander: 42 men. 
Cummings Post 37. Hindsburg; H. H. Tillev, Commander; 12 men. 
Ethan Mien Post 3. Vergennes : Milo Everest, Commander; 11 men. 
Henry Post 27, Chester: A. 1). L. Herrick, Commander; 30 men. 
Garfield Post 62, Lincoln; Lowell J. Sargent. Commander; 4 men. 
C. B. Lawton Post 44, Wilmington; George J. Bond, Commander; 10 men. 
Henry A. Eaton Post 38, Rochester; C. R. Fisk, Commander; 15 men. 

II. II. Smith Post 19, Stowe ; 11. Warren, Commander; 13 men. 
Waterson Post 45, Chelsea; G. 0. Smith, Commander: 15 men. 
Mason Post 16. Glover; V. T. Fisher, Commander; 38 men. 
Brooks Post 13. Montpelier; W. F. Waterman, Commander: 154 men. 
Stowe Post 29. Calais: E. W. Bliss, Commander: 15 men. 

Abraham Lincoln Post 85, While River Junction; A. B. Voodry, Commander: 40 men. 

William C. Tracy Post 35, Windsor; C. II. Hill, Commander: 20 men. 

Flint Post 15. Craftsbur) ; R. W. Cowles, Commander; 16 men. 

Erastus Buck Post 78, Maud Pond; M. L. Dyer, Commander; 25 men. 

W. E. Martin Post 101, Plainville; Homer 1 lollister, Commander ; 25 men. 

Sheridan Post 46, Weston; J. M. Tarbell, Commander; 22 men. 



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'Department of the Potomac. 

Department Commander M. Emmett Urell and Stafl". 

Old Guard Union Veteran Corps, Washington, D. C. ; James W. Edgar, Captain; 52 men. 

Rawlins Post Drum Corps. 

John A. Rawlins Post 1, Washington, D. C; Alva S. Taber, Commander; 75 men. 

Kit Carson Drum Corps. 

Kit Carson Post 2, Washington, D. C; George Mackay, Commander; 200 men. 

Lincoln Post 3, Washington, D. C. ; Marion T. Anderson. Commander; 70 men. 

O. P. Morton Post 4. Washington, D. C. ; George D. Graham, Commander; 34 men. 

George G. Meade Post 5, Washington, D. C. ; William M. Potter, Commander; 68 men. 



Department of Virginia. 

Department Commander N. J. Smith and Staft". 
Farragut Post Drum Corps. 

Farragut Post 1, Portsmouth; James Clegg, Commander; 15 men. 
Richmond Drum Corps. 

Phil. Kearney Post 10, Richmond; J. B. Merrill, Commander; 30 men. 

Delegations from Cailloux Post 2, Norfolk; Dahlgren Post 4, Norfolk; James K. Clay Post. 
17, Hampton; Garfield Post 9, Hampton; Warden Post 25, Norfolk. 



•Department of {Maryland. 

Department Commander George R. Graham and Staff. 

Wilson Drum and Bugle Corps. 

Wilson Post 1, Baltimore: William King, Commander; 70 men. 

A. W. Dodge Post 44, Baltimore: John Barrows. Commander: 49 men. 

Dushane Drum Corps, Baltimore. 

Dushane Post 3, Baltimore; Frank M. Smith, Commander: 123 men. 

Delegations from Burnside Post 49, and others; 75 men. 



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Department of V^ebraska. 

Department Commander T. S. Clarkson and Staff. 

About ioo men in line, representing Sedgwick PoNt i. Kearney; J. W. Gerry Post 81, 
Juniata; Farragut Post 25, Lincoln; Lyon Post 11, Grand Island: Strickland Post 13, 
Hastings: Mansfield Post 54, Palmyra; George A. Custer Post 7, Omaha: Hooper 
Post 133, Hooper; Sam Rice Post 2\<<. Merna; McPherson Post 4, Fremont; L. L. 
Richards, Commander. 

Department of {Michigan. 

Department Commander Henry M. Duffield and Staff. 

4th Regiment Band of" Detroit. 

Detroit Post 383, Detroit; W. A. Greene, Commander: 36 men. 

Fairbanks Post Drum Corps, Detroit. 

Fairbanks Post 7, Detroit: Thomas Davey, Commander; 2^ men. 

Delegation of 300 men from the various Posts in the Department. 

Department of Iowa. 

Department Commander Mason P. Mills anil Staff. 

Delegation of 200 men from the different Posts in the Department. 

Department of Indiana. 

Department Commander Gil R. Stormont and Staff. 

Platoon of 105 men, representing various Posts of the Department. 

'Department of Colorado and Wyoming. 

Department Commander D. L. Holden and Staff. 
(i. \V. Cook Zouave Drum and Fife Corps of Denver. 
Leadville Drum and Fife Corps of Leadville. 
Platoon of 40 men from various Pon(s. 

"Department 0/ Kansas. 



Department Commander I. F. Collins and Stall'. 
3d Regiment Band of Houlton. 
Murdoek Singing Club of Topeka. 
Platoon of 75 men from various Posts. 

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Department of 'Delaware. 

Department Commander Samuel Lewis and Staff. 
Platoon of 35 men from various Posts. 

Department of Minnesota. 

Department Commander James Compton and Staff. 
Platoon of 50 men from various Posts. 

Department of Missouri. 

Department Commander Leo Rassieur and Staff. 

Kansas City Rifles Band. 

Kansas City Rifles; A. R. Taylor, Commander; 44 men. 

Wausau 3d National Guard Band of Milwaukee, Wis. 

Frank P. Blair Post 1, St. Louis; J. J. Scharr, Commander; 175 men. 

Gen. Lyon Post 2, St. Louis; Jacob N. Evers, Commander; 56 men. 

Roxbury Drum Corps. 

Col. llasseudevbel Post 13, St. Louis; Ernest Kretschmar, Commander; 74 men. 

Arsenal Corps Band of St. Louis. 

Ransom Post 131, St. Louis; II. N. Pollard, Commander; 16S men. 

Col. Shaw Post 343, St. Louis; F. R. Clarke, Commander; 10 men. 

'Department of Oregon. 

Department Commander James A. Varney. 
Representatives of Posts 4, 20 and 320; 5 men. 

Department of Kentucky. 

Department Commander M. Minton and Staff". 

F. C. Miller Drum Corps of Louisville. 

George II. Thomas Post 6, Louisville; C. E. Carroll, Commander; 30 men. 

Detachment of 50 men from various Posts in the state. 

•Department of IV est Virginia. 

Department Commander George J. Walker and Staff'. 
Platoon of 25 men from various Posts. 



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Department of South Dakota. 

Department Commander E. T. Langley and Staff. 
Representatives of 30 Posts; 50 men. 

Dep a rtment of Washington and ^Alaska. 

Department Commander M. M. Holmes. 
Representatives from 3 Posts. 

Department of ^Arkansas. 

Senior Vice Department Commander Ira II. Church and Staff 
Six representatives of Posts. 

Department of New {Mexico. 

Department Commander A. M. Whitcomb and Staff. 
Six Comrades in line. 

Department of Utah. 

Commander, Surgeon J. M. Hallard of Post James B. McKeene. 

Three men in line, representing Posts James B. McKeene and Hancock. 



Department of Tennessee. 

Department Commander Charles F. Muller and Staff. 

One hundred men in line, representing Posts 2. 3, 14, 36, 43, 4^, 56. 



Department of Louisiana and (Mississippi. 



Department Commander George T. Hodges and Staff. 

Eight men in line, representing Posts 1, 2. 3, 4. 5, (,. 7 and S: J. A. Mower in command. 

/ department of Florida. 

Department Commander F. S. Goodrich and Staff. 

Twenty-five men in line, representing Posts O. M. Mitchell 4, Veteran 12, Chatfield 11, 
Capt. Kirk 13 and Ocala 17. 



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"Department of Texas. 

Department Commander A. K. Taylor and Staff". 

Jeff". C. Davis Post 36, Fort Davis; Otis M. Keesey, Commander. 

John B. Murray Post 27, Palestine; C. W. Ricker. Commander. 

George II. Thomas Post 6, Dallas; David McKay, Commander. 

W. II. Lewis Post 17, Fort Clark; J. II. Pratt, Commander. 

George B. McClellan Post 9, Dallas; David Perkins, Commander. 

W. S. Hancock Post 2, Galveston ; J. B. Dolan, Commander. 

Samuel J- Randall Post 45, Weatherford ; J. B. Gibson, Commander. 

Oliver P. Morton Post 29, Waco; E. D. Conger, Commander. 

W. S. Parmley Post 4; J. N. Deihl, Commander. 

Nathaniel Lyon Post 5, Denison; E. C. Clifford, Commander. 

Joseph A. Mower Post 10, Austin; J. M. Odell, Commander. 

George W. Wright Post 26, Paris; T. U. Johnson, Commander. 

Sedgwick Post 39, Fort Worth ; L. P. Goodell, Commander. 

Washington Post 44, Henrietta; L. B. Upham, Commander. 

Putnam Post 38, Marshall; J. W. Parks, Commander. 

Samuel R. Curtis Post 12, Gainesville; H. E. Schopmeyer, Commander. 

Emmet Crawford Post 19, El Paso; S. H. Buchanan, Commander. 

John A. Logan Post ^^, Denton; II. R. Lyons, Commander. 

Department of {Montana. 

Aide-de-Camp Henry C. Vaege. 

Representatives of Posts from Helena and Butte; R. E. Fiske, Commander; 6 men. 

'Department of Idaho. 

Department Commander W. T. Riley and Staff. 

Arthur A. Gunney Post 2, Lewiston ; E. A. McConnell, Commander; 12 men. 

E. D. Baker Post 6, Hailey; John McFarland, Commander; 6 men. 

Phil. Sheridan Post 4, Boise City; John Dutton, Past Commander; 5 men. 

U. S. Grant Post S, Shoshone; F. W. Coolidge, Commander; 2 men. 

George II. Thomas Post 9, Blackfoot; Delegate E. S. Whittier, Commander; 3 men. 

Department of Georgia. 

Department Commander David Porter and Staff. 

W. S. Hancock Post 3, Savannah; Eugene Ybanes, Commander; 5 men. 



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Department of Georgia. — Continued. 

O. M. Mitchell Post i. Atlanta: A. E. Buck, Commander; 3 men. 

Edward S. [ones Post 5. Macon; W. \V. Brown, Commander; 2 men. 

Major Robert Anderson Post 7. Charleston: James O. Ladd. Commander: 2 men. 



Department of ,. llabama. 

Department Commander \V. H. Hunter. 

\V. II. Rice Military Band. 

George II. Thomas Post 12, Port Payne: C. D. Reamer, Commander; 52 men. 



"Department of North Dakota. 

Department Commander George Ii. Winship. 

Representatives from several Posts of the Department: 12 men. 



Department of {Massachusetts. 

Germania Band, Bo-ton. 

Dahlgren Post 2, South Boston; Benjamin F. Drown, Commander: 160 men as escort to 
Department Commander. 

Department Headquarters Guidon, Color-Sergeant Theodore Leutz of Post 21. 

Department Commander George H. Innis. Post 2. 

Staff — -Chief of Staff, Andrew E. Perkins, Post 7: Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, 
J. Payson Bradley, Post 2; Medical Director, J. P.. Brewster, Post 76; Judge- 
Advocate, W. R. Rowell, Post 100; Quartermaster, John II. O'Donnell, Post 2; 
Chaplain. Alexander Blackburn, Post 120. 

Am-- — William R. Warner, Post 46: Charles S. Anthony, Post 3; Fred Billiard, Post 38: 
F. L. Boyden, Post 13; Myron II. Whittredge. Post 5; Timothy Andrews. Post 152: 
A. A. Putnam, Post 25. 

First Division Guidon. William S. Dane, Post 15. 

FIRST SUB-DIVISION. 

Cmi 1 'ii DIVISION — Senior Vice Department Commander A. A. Smith, Post 20. 
Chief of Division Staff — George A. J. Colgan, Post 7. 

Aids — O. B. Wood. Post 162; J. A. Rawson, Post 147: James A. llorton. Post 174: 
William O'Brien. Post 79: John McCrillis, Post 26: John R. McCrillis. Post 4.3; 



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Department of Massachusetts. — Continued. 

Myron ]. Ferrin, Post 75; William L. Gage, Post S6 ; James Oliver. Post 123; G. E. 
Pinkham, Post 1S5 ; S. C. Spooner, Post 70; R. S. Byam, Post 94: II. J. Millard, 
Post 7y: Andrew Sauer, Post 93: Henry P. Kennedy, Post 92. 

Musical Exchange Band. 

William Logan Rodman Post 1, New Bedford; G. P. Gifford, Commander; 200 men. 

City Fife and Drum Corps of Taunton. 

William II. Bartlett Post 3, Taunton; A. II. Blake, Commander; 163 men. 

Melrose Drum and Fife Corps. 

U. S. Grant Post 4, Melrose; John Gray, Commander; 50 men. 

Lynn Brass and Lynn Cadet Bands consolidated. 

Gen. F. W. Lander Post 5, Lynn; Eli W. Hall. Commander; 40 companies, 725 men. 

Continental Band of Providence. 

P. T. Wyman Post 6, llolliston; D. F. Travis, Commander; 40 men. 

E. W. Pierce Post 8, Middleboro; R. M. Oempsey, Commander; 75 men. 

Charles Russell Lowell Drum and Fife Corps. 

Charles Russell Lowell Post 7, Boston; W. J. Gillespie, Commander; 402 men. 

First Regiment Drum, Fife and Bugle Corps. 

Abraham Lincoln Post n, Charlestown ; Joseph W. Hill, Commander; 175 men. 

Hudson Brass Band. 

Reno Post 9, Hudson: H. P. Bean, Commander; 90 men. 

Maitland's Band, Brockton. 

Fletcher Webster Post 13, Brockton; J. W. Brown, Commander; 145 men. 

Armed Battalion Band. 

John A. Andrew Armed Battalion; Major E. D. Sanborn. 

John A. Andrew Post 15, Boston; James A. Fox, Commander; 350 men. 

Colt's First Regiment C. N. G. Band of Hartford. 

E. K. Wilcox Post 16, Springfield; E. M. Tinkham, Commander; 200 men. 

Orange New Home Band. 

Gen. Sedgwick Post 17, Orange; Israel Newton. Commander; 104 men. 

Drum Corps. 

Colonel Prescott Post iS, Ashland; G. C. Fisk, Commander; 40 men. 

Miller's Brass Band. 

H. M. Warren Post 12, Wakefield; W. L. Hawes, Commander; 200 men. 

Allen's Drum, Fife and Bugle Corps. 

Edwin V. Sumner Post 19, Fitchburg; N. F. Bond. Commander; 200 men. 

Woburn Band. 

Joseph Hooker Post 23, East Boston; Edward Preble, Commander; 110 men. 



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Department of Massachusetts. — Continued. 

Milford Brass Band. 

Maj. E. F. Fletcher Post 22. Milford; II. A. Pond, Commander; 150 men- 
Drum and Fife Corp-.. 

A. B. R. Sprague Post .'4, Grafton; Ii. F. Gibson, Commander; 42 men. 
II. II. Legge Post 25, Uxbridge; Edward Parker. Commander; 34 men. 
Baldwin's Cadet Band. 

Thomas G. Stevenson Post 26. Roxbury; J. E. Killian, Commander; 250 men. 
Rutland Band. 

George 1). Wells Post 28, West Boylston ; Silas Newton, Commander: 311 men. 
Post 29 Drum and Fife Corps. 

F. P. II. Rogers Post 29, Waltham ; M. II. Stevens, Commander; 150 men. 
Wellington Camp Sons of Veterans Drum Corps. 

W. II. Smart Post 30, Cambridgeport ; T. W. Mahady. Commander; 170 men. 
1 hum Corps. 

Washington Post 32, South Boston; George Myrick, Commander; 103 men. 
Post 33 Drum Corps. 

Burbank Post ^, Woburn ; W. P. Warren, Commander; 42 men. 
Salem Brass Band. 

Phil. 11. Sheridan Post 34, Salem; Almon Allard, Commander; 298 men. 
Theodore Winthrop Post 35, Chelsea; Geo. F. Oliver, Commander: 220 men. 
F. A. Stearns Post 37. Spencer: II. J. Clark, Commander; 65 men. 
Dexter Post 3S, Brooklield; William II. Nichols, Commander; 25 men. 
9th Infantry Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps. 

Needham Post 39, Lawrence; C. E. Locke, Commander; 200 men. 
Westfield Drum Corps. 
Lyon Post 41. Westfield; L. F. Carter, Commander; 70 men. 



si COND SUB-DIVISION. 

Junior Vice Department Commander James K. Churchill, Post 10. 

Staff — E. A. Stevens. Post ii, Chief of StatV; W. F. Sinclair, Post S2 : Perley Goddard, 

Post 24; W. II. Mellen, Post 140; George W. Smith, Post 39; W. D. Blanchard, 

Post 53; II. \V. Page, Post 135; A. L. Jones, Post 141; A. Lovejoy, Post 48; R. D. 

Bates. Post 90. 
Aids — J. Marcus Rice, Post 10; C. W. Chamberlain, Post 39; E. R. Wheeler. Post 37; 

A. D. Kingsbury. Post 1S1 ; E. A. Chase. Post 13. 



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ARTHUR A. SMITH, 
Senior Vice-Dept. -Commander. 



ALFRED C. MONROE, 
Asst. Adjt. -General. 



JAS. K. CHURCHILL, 
Junior Vice-Dept.-Commander. 



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'Department of {Massachusetts . — Continued. 

Worcester Brass Band. 

George H. Ward Post 10, Worcester; C. H. Pinkham, Commander; 419 men. 

B. F. Butler Drum and Fife Corps. 

B. F. Butler Post 42, Lowell; E. T. Rowell, Commander; 150 men. 
6th Regiment Band, Marlboro'. 

|. A. Rawlins Post 43, Marlboro'; F. C. Curtis, Commander; 105 men. 
George S. Boutwell Post 48, Aver; G. L. Sawyer, Commander; 50 men. 

D. O. Frost Drum Corps, Gloucester. 

Col. Allen Post 45, Gloucester; E. G. Winchester, Commander; 100 men. 

American Band, Fall River. 

Richard Borden Post 46, Fall River; J. M. Deane, Commander; 275 men. 

Haverhill Drum and Fife Corps. 

Maj. Howe Post 47, Haverhill; Lorenzo Frost, Commander: 75 men. 

Newburyport Cadet Band. 

A. W. Bartlett Post 49, Newburyport; George W. Latimer, Commander; 150 men. . 

Ezra Batcheller Post 51. North Brookfield ; Joseph 11. Lombard. Commander; 50 men. 

A. B. Randall Post 52, South Boston; George G. Smith, Commander; 40 men. 

C. S. Hastings Post 54, Berlin; J, L. Day, Commander; 25 men. 
Leominster Band. 

Charles H. Stevens Post 53, Leominster; H. N. Spring, Commander; no men. 

Arlington Band. 

Charles Beck Post 56, Cambridge; A. J. Littlefield, Commander; 115 men. 

Bunker Hill Cadet Drum, Fife and Bugle Corps. 

P. Stearns Davis Post 57, East Cambridge; W. F. Newman, Commander; no men. 

Weymouth Brass Band. 

Reynolds Post 5S, Weymouth; F. A. Bicknell, Commander; 240 men. 

Maj. J. A. Pratt Post 59, Sterling; E. W. Toombs, Commander; 25 men. 

Webster Drum Corps. 

Nathaniel Lyon Post 61, Webster; A. R. Snow, Commander; 90 men. 

Crescent Band, Waltham. 

Charles Ward Post 62, Newton; S. S. Whitney, Commander; 125 men. 

Natick Cadet Band. 

Gen. Wadsworth Post 63, Natick; A. B. Pierce. Commander: 150 men. 

E. D. Baker Post 64, Clinton; II. J. Brown, Commander; 30 men. 
American Band, Boston. 

S. C. Lawrence Post 66, Medford ; J. B. Simpson, Commander; S5 men. 

Medway Band. 

Benjamin Stone, Jr., Post 68, Dorchester; H. P. Paige, Commander; 200 men. 



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Department oj Massachusetts. — Continued. 

City Band, Quincy. 

George S. Thayer Post 87, Smith Braintree; H. A. Monk, Commander: 75 men. 

f. P. Rice Post 69, Westminster; L. M. Drury, Commander: 25 men. 

A. St. John Chambn' Post 72. Stoughton ; Lvsander Wood. Commander: 50 men. 

American Band, South Weymouth. 

I'aul Revere Post 88, Quincy; J. D. Williams, Commander: So men. 

Holyoke Drum Corps. 

Kilpatrick Post 71. Holyoke; P. A. Streeter, Commander; 75 men. 

Abington Band. 

McPherson Post 73, Abington: II. T. Rochefort, Commander: 60 men. 

Saugus Drum Corps. 

Gen. E. W. Hincks Post 95, Saugus; C. D. Fiske. Commander: 50 men. 

Rockland Drum and Fife Corps. 

Hartsuff Post 74, Rockland: C. II. Chubbuck. Commander: 60 men. 

Cadet Drum. Fife and Bugle Corps, Boston. 

J. I', (jould Post 75. Stoneham; J. R. Foster, Commander; 100 men. 

Ozro Miller Post 93. Shelburne Falls: W. Woodward. Commander: 50 men. 

Groveland Drum Corps. 

Charles Sumner Post 101, Groveland; Isaac C. Day, Commander: 50 men. 

Plymouth Rock Band. 

Silver Spring Fife and Drum Corps. 

Collingwood Post 76. Plymouth; N. L. Savery, Commander; So men. 

Theron E. Hall Post 77, Ilolden; T. S. Clark, Commander; 30 men. 

David A. Russell Post 78, Whitman; James E. Bates, Commander; 115 men. 

Centennial Drum Corps. 

Charles D. Sanford Post 79. North Adams; A. J. Hough, Commander; 115 men. 

Associated Drum Corps. Marblehead. 

John Goodwin, Jr., Post 82, Marblehead: R. B. Brown. Commander: 200 men. 

J. E. Wilder Post S3, Hanover: (). T. Whiting. Commander; 25 men. 

J. W. Lawton Post 85, Ware: D. W. Ainsworth, Commander: 50 men. 

Sons of Veterans Drum Corps. 

J. H. Chipman. Jr., Posl S9, Beverly; W. D. Eldredge. Commander: 150 men. 

Danvers G. A. R. Drum Corps. 

Ward Po-t 90, Danvers; R. D. Bates. Commander: no men. 

Foxboro' Post 91, Foxboro' ; D. Scott. Commander: 35 men. 

E. Humphrey Post 104. Hingham: Thomas Weston. Commander: 50 men. 

Templeton Drum Corps. 

Ericsson Post 109, East Templeton; E. W. Stone, Commander; 40 men. 



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Department of Massachusetts. — Continued. 

Everett Peabody Post 10S, Georgetown: Benjamin Martin. Commander: 60 men. 

Brockton Heights Band. 

Capt. Horace Niles Post no, Randolph; 11. C. Alden. Commander: 80 men. 

J. E. Simmons Post in, Pembroke; C. A. Bryant, Commander; 30 men. 

D. Willard Robinson Post n_\ Norwell; J. H. Proutv, Commander: 50 men. 

Col. C. R. Mudge Post 114, Merrimac; Bailey Sargent, Commander; 40 men. 

South Gardner Drum Corps. 

D. G. Farragut Post no, Gardner; Harvey Clark, Commander; 85 men. 
Moses Ellis Post 117. Medfield; L. Babcock. Commander; 30 men. 
Wickliffe Drum Corps, Lynn. 

James L. Bates Post 118, Swampscott; S. F. Douglass, Commander; 30 men. 

Dedham Brass Band. 

T. Ingraham Post 121, Hyde Park; W. C. Bryant, Commander; So men. 

E. P. Wallace Post 122, Amesbury ; C. E. Kennard, Commander; So men. 
Parker Post 123, Athol ; B. W. Spooner, Commander; 75 men. 

Justin Din-iick Post 124, East Bridgewater; G. R. Dyer, Commander; 40 men. 

T. L. Bonney Post 127. Hanson: John Scates. Commander; 40 men. 

George E. Sayles Post 126, Adams; R. S. llarrop, Commander; 25 men. 

George H. Thomas Post 131, Leicester; Henry Bisco. Commander: 35 men. 

Allen's Drum Corps, Boston. 

Robert A. Bell Post 134, Boston: Joseph II. Smith. Commander: 90 men. 

George C. Marshall Post 136, Rutland; George A. Brown, Commander: 30 men. 

THIRD SUB-DIVISION. 

Department Inspector W. A. Wetherbee, Post 62, Commander of Division. 

Staff — II. W. Downs, Post 62: J. F. Galloupe, Post 5: George B. Coggswell, Post 52; 

George Jewett, Post 19; H. F. Copeland, Post 78: A. E. Paine, Post 13. 
Aides-de-Cami- — W. A. Hopkins. Post 134: I. M. Holt, Post 88; S. G. Southwick, Post 

50; Amos Stillman, Post 34: Fayette Bicknell, Post 195: A. J. Bennett, Post 156; 

W. M. Gilman, Post 104: E. P. Morton, Post 61; II. A. Starkey, Post 153; C. E. 

Palmer, Post 121: J. Waltei Bradlee, Post 102: N. Richardson, Post 106; David 

Dines, Post 167; Calvin Claflin, Post 168; L. C. Lane, Post 29; C. W. Gale, Post 19. 
Somerville Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps. 

Charles Devens Post 27, Oxford; L. E. Thayer, Commander; 25 men. 
W. C. Kinsley Post 139, Somerville: II. B. Sellon, Commander; 150 men. 
C. W. Carroll Post 144, Dedham; J. A. Lothrop, Commander; 75 men. 



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Department of Massachusetts. — Continued. 

Watertown Drum Corps. 

]. B. Patten Post 81, Watertown; I. R. Harrison, Commander; 40 men. 

Burnside Post 142, Saxonville; G. A. Reed, Commander; 40 men. 

M. E. Stowell Post ^4, South Deerfield; I). 1". Hagar, Commander; [6 men. 

Topsfield Brass Band. 

Union Post 50. Peabody ; W. V. Wiley, Commander; too men. 

St. fames Cadet Drum Corps. 

A. I). Weld Post 14S. Winchester: E. Robinson. Commander; 311 men. 

Maplewood Cadet Band. 

Gen. II. G. Berry Post 40. Maiden: F. T. Hawley, Commander; 100 men. 

Roma Band, Boston. 

Francis Washburn Post 92, Brighton: Josiah Rhodes, Commander; 90 men. 

C. C. Phillips Post 14. Hopkinton; C. B. Holman, Commander; 30 men. 

Mattapan Drum Corps. 

II. F. Walcott Post 102. Milton; J. F. Farrell, Commander; 40 men. 

Southboro' Band. 

Otis Chapman Post 104, Chicopee; W. C. Tracey, Commander: 35 men. 

Maj. Boyd Post 151, West Newbury; II. 1). Lav. Commander; 22 men. 

(>. II. P. Sargent Post 152. Essex; J. H. Burnham, Commander: 30 men. 

Frederich Hecker Post 21 Drum Corps. 

Frederich Hecker Post 21. Boston; 1". B. Banburg, Commander; 45 men. 

Northampton Drum Corps. 

W. L. Baker Post 86, Northampton; L. B. Parkhurst, Commander: 190 men. 

Home Drum Corps. 

Maj. G. L. Stearns Po^t 149, Charlestown ; C. E. Folsom, Commander; 60 men. 

John Rogers Post 170, Mansfield: II. E. Sherman, Commander; 25 men. 

Lawrence Military Band. 

Wm. 1'.. Greene Post 100, Methueii: M. W. Keyes, Com.: 60 men, accompanied by battery. 

J. Orson Fiske Post 105, Upton; D. W. Morse, Commander; 20 men. 

L. I.. Merrick Post 107, Palmer; George 0. Henry, Commander; 25 men. 

( ). W. Wallace Post 106. Rockport; II. C. Davis. Commander; 35 men. 

Agawam Band. 

Gen. James Appleton Post 12S. Ipswich ; C. W. Bamford. Commander: 60 men. 

George W. Perry Post 31, Scituate; A. A. Seaverns, Commander: 40 men. 

Athol Drum Corps. 

Hubbard Y. Smith Post 140. Athol: W. F . Jaquith, Commander: 75 men. 

Andover Drum Corps. 

Gen. W. F. Bartlett Post 119, Andover; M. L. Farnham, Commander: 30 men. 



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Department of Massachusetts. — Continued. 

Hobbs' Band. Boston. 

Francis Gould Post 36, Arlington; S. C. Frost, Commander: 40 men. 

Arthur G. Biscoe Post So, Westboro'; J. W. Fairbanks, Commander: So men. 

W. VV. Rockwell Post 125. Pittstield ; C. B. Scudder, Commander: 50 men. 

Drum Corps. 

Woburn Post 161. Woburn : J. L. Pinkham, Commander; 85 men. 

Norfolk Brass Band. 

Prentis M. Whiting Post 192, North Attleboro'; S. II. Bugbee, Commander; 45 men. 

G. A. R. Post 120 Band, Lowell. 

lames A. Garfield Post 120, Lowell; C. W. Nevers, Commander; 125 men and battery. 

Marcus Keefe Post 155, Monson; A. A. Gage, Commander; 4.8 men. 

South Framingham Drum Corps. 

Gen. J. G. Foster Post 163, South Framingham: E. F. Phinney, Commander: 50 men. 

Alpha Drum Corps, Boston. 

fohn A. Hawes Post 159, East Boston; L. II. Dutton, Commander: So men. 

Juniata Brass Band, Stoneham. 

Veteran Post 194, Reading; W. S. Parker. Commander; 75 men. 

Concord Drum Corps. 

Old Concord Post 1S0, Concord: E. F. Phelps, Commander: 45 men. 

Gen. II. C. Lee Post 176, Huntington: J. K. Knox, Commander; 40 men. 

Samuel F. Woods Post 179. Bane : B. F. Brooks, Commander: 50 men. 

E. J. Griggs Post 97, Belchertown ; A. W. Morse, Commander: 35 men. 

George H. Patch Camp So Drum Corps. 

James A. Perkins Post 156, Everett; G. C. Gould, Commander; 50 men. 

George G. Meade Post 119, Lexington; E. S. Locke, Commander; 30 men. 

1. C. Freeman Post 55, Provincetown : J. Cook, Commander: 30 men. 

Isaac Davis Fife and Drum Corps, Acton. 

Isaac Davis Post 13S, West Acton; D. II. Hall, Commander; 40 men. 

Martha Sever Post 154. Kingston; G. A. (, raves. Commander; 35 men. 

Cambridge City Band. 

fohn A. Logan Post 1S6, Cambridgeport ; J. W. Brown, Commander; 50 men. 

Dalton Drum Corps. 

Hancock Post 1S7, Dalton: Edwin Northrup, Commander: 25 men. 

Preston Post lSS. Beverly Farms: Eben Day, Commander: 30 men. 

American Watch Company Band. 

Gettysburg Post 191, Boston; Harrison Hume. Commander: 100 men. 

Allen's Band. Billerica. 

Ladd and Whitney Post 1S5. Lowell; J. D. S. Baldwin, Commander; 130 men, 



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Department of Massachusetts. — Continued. 

Scott Bradley Post 177. Lee; J. II. Casey, Commander: 35 men. 

George A. Custer Post 70. Millbury; J. A. Coffin, Commander: 30 men. 

Oilman C. Parker Post 153, Winchendon ; B. R. Thomas, Commander: 40 men. 

William II. Freeman Post 129, Blackstone; P. Cavanaugh. Commander; 15 men. 

M. E. Taft Post 162, Turner's Falls; J. F. Bartlett, Commander; 40 men. 

Armstrong Post 150, Montague: Jason Mann, Commander; 20 men. 

George II. Maintien Post 133, Plainville; H. E. Coombs, Commander; 30 men. 

Hill's Band, Ne\n Bedford. 

R. A. Peirce Post [90, New Bedford; W. J. Nickerson, Commander; 100 men. 

Medway Cornet Band. 

lames 11. Sargent Post 130, Medway; D. S. Woodman, Commander: 35 men. 

German Band. Pittsfield. 

Berkshire Post i<;7- Pittsfield: Walter Cutting, Commander; 50 men. 

William B. Eaton Post 199, Revere: L. L. Bullard, Commander: 20 men. 

Henry Clay Wade Post 201. Cottage City; II. W. Cove. Commander; 20 men. 

Samuel Sibley Post 137. East Douglas: G. Q^ Bigelow. Commander; 25 men. 

Norwich Band. 

Rouse R. Clarke Post 167, Whitinsville; James Critchton, Commander; 35 men. 

M. Ammidown Post 168. Southbridge ; E. T. Morse. Commander; 50 men. 

George K. Bird Post 169, Norwood; Alvin Fuller, Commander: 40 men. 

East Pepperell Drum Corps. 

Thomas A. Parker Post 195, Pepperell; G. II. Morrill, Commander: 50 men. 

Needham Drum Corps. 

Galen Orr Post 1S1, Needham: A. E. Foss, Commander; 25 men. 

C. M. Wheaton Post 1S2, Somerset; W. 11. Belden, Commander: 20 men. 

Charles C. Smith Post 1S3. South Hadley; Patrick O'Gara, Commander: 40 men. 

Sergeant Plunkett Post 1N4. Ashburnham ; W. O. Parker. Commander; 25 men. 

Greenfield Drum Corps. 

Edwin E. Dav Post 174, Greenfield; Anson Withev. Commander: 50 men. 

William Wadsworth Post [65, Duxbury; II. II. Lewis, Commander; 35 men. 



tAged and Crippled Veterans. 

There were nearly 100 barouches and barges in the line, occupied exclusively by 
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U^aval 'Di visions and ^Regimental Associations. 

Commander-in-Chief, Symmes E. Brown, Commodore of National Association of cNaval 

Veterans, and Staff. 
Kearsarge Ass'n of NavalVeterans, Boston; Commodore Paul II. Kendricken. Com'r; 175 men. 
Naval Post 516, New York; B. S. Osborn, Acting Commander: 40 men. 
Farragut Naval Veterans, New York; Lewis Richards, Commander; 20 men. 
Edwin A. Stevens Post 104, Hoboken, N. J. ; E. D. Egbert, Commander: 20 men. 
Connecticut Naval Veterans, Hartford; F. B. Allen, Commander; 9 men. 
Naval Veteran Legion, Philadelphia; Isaac K. Archer. Commander; 100 men. 
Farragut Association Naval Veterans, Providence, R. I. : W. H. Place, Commander; 40 men. 
Farragut Association, Philadelphia; Commodore William Simmond, Commander; 50 men. 
Farragut Naval Association of the West; A.P.Johnson, Commander; 6 men. 
Cushing Naval Veteran Association of Milwaukee, Wis. ; 3 men. 
Minnesota Naval Veteran Association : 1 delegate. 
Three Falls Naval Veterans. Louisville. Ky. ; 1 delegate. 
Boston Fife and Drum Corps. 
Robert G. Shaw Veteran Association; Major WestleyJ. Furlong, Commander: 50 men. 



SO NS OF V E TERANS. 

Lieut. -General II. B. Bagley, Department Commander, Staff and Aids. 

Massachusetts 'Division. 

Maiden City Band. 

Division Commander Col. W. A. Stevens and Staff. 

Camp 41 Drum Corps. 

Gen. N. P. Banks Camp 41, Waltham : Watson Johnson, Commander: 32 men. 

William F. Barry Camp 76, Melrose. 

Everett Drum, Fife and Bugle Corps. 

Gen. A. P. Martin Camp 62, Everett; William E. Lee, Commander ; 45 men. 

Camp 100 Drum Corps. 

J. Wiley Edmands Camp 100, Newton: A. G. Shattuck, Commander: 30 men. 

Nonpareil Drum Corps, Roxbury. 

Admiral Winslow Camp 31, Roxbury: W. T. Sheehan. Commander: 142 men. 

Camp Si Drum Corps. 

Theodore Winthrop Camp Si, Chelsea: 11. S. Thompson, Commander; So men. 



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^Massachusetts Division. — Continued. 

Capt. Richard Phillips Camp 3, Marblehead; Willard White, Commander; 40 men. 

Camp 2 Drum Corps. 

Goodell Camp 2. Worcester; James A. Getling, Commander; 65 men. 

Col. L. D. Sargent Camp 21, Lawrence; David S. Farquer, Commander: 24 men. 

K. Randall Jenness Camp 10, Haverhill; E. P. Coggswell. Commander: 20 men. 

Gloucester City Band. 

J. F. Dyer Camp 24, Gloucester; Charles B. Corliss, Commander; 35 men. 

Naumkeag Drum Corps. Salem. 

Henry Merritt Camp S, Salem: A. 11. Higgins, Commander: 60 men. 

Nathaniel Bowditch Camp 30, Dorchester; A. L. Stiles. Commander; 40 men. 

Camp 13 Drum Corps. 

J. A. Andrew Camp 13, Stoughton ; Harry C. Weston, Commander; 30 men. 

William Palmer Camp 4, Randolph: Walter Lyons. Commander; 31 men. 

Clark S. Symonds Camp 2S, Fitchburg; Frank White, Commander; 50 men. 

Roanoke Camp 105, Southbridge : E. Meade, Commander, with delegates from Albert Prince 

Lamp 12, Oxford, and W. S. Hancock Camp 32, Webster: 2S men. 
Dahlgren Camp 98, South Boston; E.G. Priest, Commander: 25 men. 
Rockland Drum Corps. 

Howard A. Wheeler Camp 50, Rockland; John Carney, Commander; 36 men. 
Gen. D. N. Couch Camp 26, Taunton; Fred Plummer, Commander: 55 men. 
Richard Borden Camp 90, Fall River; Frank McGraw, Commander; 60 men. 
E. A. Bennett Camp 52, Leominster: George A. Woodward, Commander; 36 men. 
W. II. Carney Camp S2 Drum Corps. 

W. II. Carney Camp S2, Boston; A. A. Seldon. Commander; 20 men. 
E. A. Bridges Camp S3, Holliston : N. E. Bridges, Commander: 24 men. 
Charles C. Clark Camp 69. Pembroke; Percy Damon, Commander; 34 men. 
Camp 36 Drum Corps. 

J. L. Bates Camp 36, Weymouth; M. P. Garey, Commander: 50 men. 
Gen. George G. Meade Camp 67, Abington: George Hunt, Commander: 30 men. 
Camp 72 Drum Corps. 

Charles S. Meade Camp 72. Hingham; G. O. Henderson. Commander; 53 men. 
C. E. Bates Camp SS, Scituate: A. A. Coleman, Commander: 20 men. 
Stephen M. Weld Camp 75, Dedham ; G. L. Hargraves, Commander: 55 men. 
W. G. Scanlan Lamp 42, Grafton; B. D. Adams, Commander: 33 men. 
Joe Hooker Camp 73, North Brookfield ; Charles L. Dickinson. Commander; 20 men. 
R. F. Bowen Camp 74, Millbury: James Dunn, Commander; 10 men. 
Brighton Drum Corps: 7 men. 



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Massachusetts Division. — Continued. 

Joel D. Dudley Camp 89, Brighton: F. W. Clarke, Commander; 40 men. 

Benjamin S. Lovell Camp 112, West Acton; O. L. Clough, Commander; 30 men. 

Henry Cabot Lodge Camp 114, Boston: J. J. Coffey, Jr., Commander; 2S men. 

Henry Wilson Camp 49, Natick ; Nelson H. Peirce, Commander; 30 men. 

F. C. Curtis Camp 94, Marlboro"; R. (). Clark. Commander; 4S men. 

Charles D. Force Camp 66, Norwood; Will Bateman, Commander; 2S men. 

George A. Custer Camp 11. Whitman; Frank Ford. Commander; 40 men. 

Gen. William F. Draper Camp 44. Franklin; C. D. Yanarsdalen, Commander; 19 men. 

B. W. Harris Camp 61. East Bridgewater; II. II. Williams, Commander; 14 men. 
Joseph B. Smith Camp 117, Hanover; S. A. Luther. Commander; 10 men. 

W. F. Bartlett Camp 10S, Pittslield; II. I). Sisson, Commander; 38 men. 

A. B. Fuller Camp 102; Andrew F. Nutting, Commander; 26 men. 

Col. E. E. Ellsworth Camp 3S, Attleboro'; W. A. Cook, Commander; 16 men. 

I. H. Bonner Camp 58, Foxboro' ; M. E, Hawes, Commander: 12 men. 

John Smith Camp S4, Mansfield; Ralph Gibbs, Commander; 16 men. 

J. B. Hanson Camp 7, Danvers; F. D. Nimblett, Commander; 26 men. 

John Low Camp 6, Beverly; W. S. Hall, Commander; 30 men. 

Gen. Sheridan Camp 53, Orange; A. A. I'pton, Commander; 26 men. 

Nelson Gardner Camp 103, East Marshfield ; F. A. Holmes, Commander; 10 men. 

I'. S. Grant Camp 20, South Boston; E. W. Weller, Commander; 15 men. 

Arlington Drum. Fife and Bugle Corps. 

Charles B. Marsh Camp 45, Arlington: William Kennison, Commander; 35 men. 

Luther Hill Camp 64, Spencer; F. L. Powers, Commander: 40 men. 

Company E Military Band, New Bedford. 

John A. Hawes Camp 35, New Bedford; A. L. Allen. Commander; 4S men. 

Ezra ]. Trull Drum Corps. 

Col. Ezra J. Trull Camp 33, Charlestown : Fred C. Stotz, Commander; 33 men. 

Col. Shatswell Camp 85, Ipswich; G. A. Perkins, Commander; 25 men. 

R. E. Bowen Camp 74. Millbury; James Dunn. Commander; 10 men. 

Camp 79 Drum Corps. 

William F. Barry Camp 79, Melrose; Capt. O. II. Cook: 42 men. 

S. S. Sleeper Camp 56, Canton; F. L. Pearson, Commander; 50 men. 

Waltham Drum Corps. 

John P. Lovell Camp 82, Boston; A. A. Rhodes. Commander; 90 men. 

C. R. Mudge Camp 1, Lynn; George C. Atkinson. Commander; 40 men. 
Farragut Camp 7S, Lowell; S. Pickering, Commander; 30 men. 

Gen. G. A. McClellan Camp 60, Ilolyoke; C. L. Hammond, Commander; 10 men. 



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Massachusetts Division. — Continued. 

Charles Devens Camp 70, I'pton; Henry Corbin, Commander; 10 men. 

Waller L. Lincoln Camp in. Andover: C. B. Jenkins. Commander; 50 men. 

Francis L. Southwiek Camp 27. Quincy; C. E. Bowker, Commander; 46 men. 

Warren II. Cudworth Camp 95, East Boston: W. B. Whitney, Commander: }2 men. 

S. S. Bond Camp 91, Ware: Will Newcomb, Commander: 18 men. 

Cadet Drum Corps, Charlestown. 

Warren Camp 106. Charlestown: E. J. Swift, Commander; 40 men. 

Germania Drum Corps, Clinton. 

L. A. Fuller Camp 19, Clinton: Charles Thomas, Commander: 24 men. 

American Drum Corps, Roxbury. 

John F. Andrew Camp 96; F. E. Bolton, Commander; 103 men. 

Charles Sumner Camp .57. Gardner; R. B. Howard. Commander: 25 men. 

John II. Dyer Camp 86, Stoneham ; W. G. Bartlett, Commander: 26 men. 

Gen. J. V. Reynolds Camp 23, Reading: John Webster, Commander: 17 men. 

Gen. J. M. Corse Camp 57, North Attleboro': Thomas McAuliffe, Commander: 30 men. 

II. S. Greenleaf Camp 99, Shelburne Falls; F. II. Chandler, Commander; 30 men. 

Charles P. Warner Camp S7, l'eabody ; George Green, Commander: 40 men. 



New Hampshire "Division. 

Col. James II. Joyce, Commander, and Stall'. 
S. J. Wentworth Drum Corps. 

S. J. Wentworth Camp 14, Great Falls; Capt. II. A. Cobb. Commander: 65 men. 
J. (J_. A. Warren Camp iS, Nashua: W. E. Caffrey, Commander: 50 men. 
Delegates from Dover, Laconia, Rochester, Manchester, Milford and Milton: W. S. Willev 
Commander: 34 men. 



Mjinc Division. 



F. J. Bartlett, Commander. 

Portland Drum Corps. 

Shepley Camp 4, Portland: J. R. Lowell, Commander: 50 men. 

Chaplain Camp Drum Corps, Bangor. 

Daniel Chaplain Camp 3. Bangor; 40 nun. 



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Vermont 'Division. 

Maj. H. C. Slack and Aids. 

Delegations aggregating 35 men from the following Camps : 52, of Follis ; 60, of Manchester; 

94, of Springfield ; 2S, of Chelsea; 65, of Port Mills: 67, ofWindsor; 50, of Morrisville ; 

4, of Bennington: 39, of Calais: 2, of Brattleboro'. 



Connecticut Division. 

Capt. E. Reisel, Commander. 

G. A. Stedman Camp 6, Hartford; George E. Fox, Commander: 24 men. Delegation of 

20 men from the following Camps: 3, of Norwich; 40, of Unionville ; 15, of Deep 

River: S, of Seymour; and ^, ofWindsor Locks. 
Sons of Veterans Drum Corps, New Haven. 
Nathan Hale Camp 1, New Haven; A. E. Lincoln, Commander; 31 men. 



From Other States. 

Delegates to the number of 15 from Rufus King Camp of Milwaukee, Wis., C. K. Pier 
Camp 35, Milwaukee, and Carl Witty Camp 37 of Sheboygan, Wis.; G. T. Schiiminock. 
Commander. 

Charles II. Byers Camp 90, Iloosick Falls, N. Y. ; E. C. Byers, Commander: 41 men. 

Reno Camp 102, New York City, accompanied by Lafayette Camp 140, New York 
City; Wm. A. McCarthy, Commander; 40 men. 

Delegations of 15 men from Grant and Reynolds Camps of Philadelphia, Penn. ; W. P. 
McNulty, Commander. 

Delegations from Camps 166 and 254 of Chicago, 111. ; Capt. Leonard of Camp 166, Com- 
mander; 12 men. 

Garfield Camp yo, Burlington, Iowa: one delegate. 

Delegates from John A. Logan Camp 2, Washington. D. C. 



1{bode Island Division. 

Col. Theodore A. Barton, Commander, and Stall. # 

Continental Band of Providence. 

McClellan Camp 2, Providence; G. L. Rogers, Commander; 30 men. 



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'A,'/',/,/, Island Division. — Continued. 

F. C. Greene Camp i. Phenix; Alex. Wood. Commander; 22 men. 

Cien. A. (i. Lawrence Camp 3. Newport; S. \. Millington, Commander: 17 men. 

Gen. A. E. Burnside Camp 5, Providence; W. I*. Fox. Commander; 65 men. 

A. K. Tilton Camp 9, Pawtiickel : J. E. Mason, Commander; ^) men. 

Gen. Cutter Camp 5, Rockland: \V. B. Bentley, Commander: iS men. 

C. F. Gordon Camp 10, Woonsocket; W. S. Preston, Commander; 20 men. 

Garfield Camp 11. Providence: James Warren, Jr., Commander; 50 men. 

Gen. G. E. Meade Camp 12, East Providence; G. R. Comrie, Commander; 30 men. 

F. E. Davis Camp 13, Providence; G. E. Coman, Commander: 6S men. 

George W. Stedman Camp 14. Westerly; R. A. Mason, Commander; ^7, men. 

I. P. Rodman Camp 15, Wakefield: S. II. Donahue, Commander: 35 men. 

W. H. P. Steere Camp 16. Central Falls: J. F. Clark. Commander; 38 men. 

C. D. Bowen Camp iS. Apponam,'; Walter lloatley. Commander; 27 nun. 

Col. James Barton Camp 19, Providence; G. II. Kibbey, Commander: 15 men. 



In connection with this event and day — ami, indeed, with all the days 
of the Encampment — it is fitting that mention be made of the beautiful 
weather that prevailed Earth and sea and sky were fair. The heated air 
of previous days was cooled by refreshing breezes. Nothing could have been 
more fortunate than this, particularly upon the day of the parade, when, had 
the weather been marked by excessive heat, great would have been the 
sufferings of the veterans. Just before the column started a gentle rain 
descended, laying the dust, and for the remainder of the day the skv was 
overcast by fleecy clouds. 

In contemplation of the conditions of this great National gathering, the 
almost entire freedom from sickness or accidents, and the long list of favor- 
ing circumstances and incidents that brightened the whole week, together 
with the harmonious action and great results of the Convention : shall it not 
be said, in deep and reverent acknowledgment of the goodness of Mini who 
ruleth, that in all these things may be seen the ever-controlling hand and 
abiding care of Providence ? He, at the Nation's birth, smiled with special 
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the blood-red sea of civil war to an everlasting peace. The reverent observer 
saw Heaven's special favors vouchsafed to the Grand Army of the Republic 
during its Encampment in Boston. 

It is proper to state that the tenets and underlying principles of this 
brotherhood of soldiers and sailors are in accord with Heaven's laws and 
lessons. The Grand Army of the Republic recognizes its dependence upon, 
and swears allegiance to, the King of Kings. Before Him come the appeals 
of all true comrades for guidance and assistance. It claims His watch and 
care. In its broad, impartial work of benevolence and love, and the inculcation 
of its teachings of loyalty to our country, it performs His work and is 
His ally. 

" In God we trust ; " and as He overshadowed the army of the Union in 
battle, gave it the victory, has ever been to the nation "a piller of cloud 
by day and fire by night," the survivors of the war have every reason still 
to trust Him, the Creator, Preserver, Guide and Protector. 




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i ^JHE parade started from the juintiufi oi ( ommonwealth 
avenue and Arlington street, and passed through 
,)^^^*^^^ Arlington and Boylston streets to Copley square, 
thence through Dartmouth street, Columhus avenue, 
[West Chester park and square, Washington street, to Hano- 
ver street, where it was dismissed. 

The line was five hours and forty minutes passing a 
given point. 

To attempt to describe singly all the points well worthy 
f of mention in the great parade, a much larger volume than 
I this would be necessary. The similarity of the uniforms of 
the Grand Army of the Republic led the majority of the 
people to believe that there would be a sameness in the 
procession which, to say the least, would soon become monoto- 
nous. But such was not the case. It was an ever-varying 
sight ; and as the veterans of each state passed by, the 
interest increased rather than lagged, and the great crowd, 
which had been holding their positions since morning, only left them at 
night when the last carriage had passed. 

There were four reviewing stands : the presidential in Copley square, 
the city stand in Franklin square, one for the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic and Woman's Relief Corps in Blackstone square, and one in Adams 
square, where Commander-in-Chief Alger, surrounded by his staff, and Gen. 
Butler were saluted by the veterans. 




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The inmates of the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea and those of the Sailors' 
Home in Ouincy occupied seats on the stand in Adams square and had a 
perfect view of the procession. 

The greatest interest centered in Copley square. The President and 
party arrived promptly at half past ten o'clock, the hour at which the pro- 
cession was advertised to start. The grand stand was a picture for an 
artist. It would be a difficult task to secure a gathering of more celeb- 
rities than were present at that time. There was hardly a state or terri- 
tory in the Union but what was represented by a favorite and distinguished 
son. At the official end of the stand were seen, in addition to President 
Harrison, Vice-President Morton (who remained, however, only an hour), 
Governor Brackett, Gen. Sherman, Secretary of War Proctor, Secretary of 
the Navy Tracy, Secretary of the Interior Noble, Secretary of Agriculture 
Rusk, Maj. McKinley of Ohio, Gen. Devens, Gen. Sickles, ex-Senator 
Warner Miller of New York, Gov. Burleigh of Maine, Governor Dillingham of 
Vermont, Governor Thayer of Nebraska, Governor Bulkeley of Connecticut, 
Congressman Boutelle of Maine, Senator Winkley of Wisconsin, Gen. 
Robinson of New York, Assistant-Secretary Grant of Vermont, Adjt.-Gen. 
Sprague of Maine, Adjt.-Gen. Peak of Vermont, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. 
McKee, Mrs. Alger, the Misses Alger, Mrs. Logan, Mme. Nordica, Mr. 
and Mrs. A. L. Coolidge, Mrs. Cogswell of Salem, Hon. Henry Cabot 
Lodge, the Governor's council and staff, Lieutenant-Governor Haile, Secre- 
tary of State Peirce, Auditor Ladd, Congressman Dorsey of Nebraska, 
Speaker Barrett of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, President 
Sprague of the State Senate, Gen. John M. Corse, Lieuts. Arnold, Huse 
and Hill of the Admiral's staff, Commander Horace Elmore, commanding 
the United States corvette Kcarsarge ; Commander Sterling, commanding 
the United States despatch boat Dolphin; Commander Chadwick, command- 
ing the United States gunboat Yorktoivn ; Gen. B. F. Butler, Gen. A. W. 
Greeley of the signal service, Collector Beard, Private Secretary Halford, 
Hon. Charles Carleton Coffin and Mayor Hart. 

On other portions of the stand were Corp. Tanner, Hon. W. W. 
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Persons who had rendered conspicuous service, whether in the procession 
or on the stands, were loudly cheered. 

The entire procession rent the air with hurrahs as the veterans recog- 
nized the commanding' form of Gen. Sherman, who was nut alone the 
recipient of this enthusiasm. During the early part of the parade Gen. 
Butler took his place among the notables, and cheer after cheer went up 
for him as the veterans recognized his well-known countenance. Mrs. 
Logan also came in for her share of applause, together with every well- 
known person on the stand. 

The Franklin square stand was occupied by the city officials and their 
ladies ; but the interest was little compared with that centered upon the 
Adams square stand, where Commander-in-Chief Alger officially reviewed 
the procession. The ovation given there was spontaneous. Few comrades 
passed who did not doff their hats to their popular Commander-in-Chief. 

As to the general make-up of the parade and the chief attractive points, 
there was enough to please the eye and repay the tired throngs for their 
hours of endurance in maintaining their vantage ground of observation. 
Illinois, the birthplace of the Grand Army of the Republic, was warmly 
welcomed, while the crowds applauded the live badger carried by a Wiscon- 
sin veteran, in his buckskin trappings. The tattered battle flags of Penn- 
sylvania was a mute but effective appeal for royal and hearty tribute. 
Connecticut, with its wooden nutmeg, and Alabama's historic mule, caused 
great merriment. 

Ohio and New York, the latter with its famous Lafayette Post of New 
York City, marched in perfect line ; and the veterans of every passing 
Department were applauded as their various qualifications were brought to 
view. The Naval Divisions and Sons of Veterans received a fitting ovation. 

The wonderful massing of the Massachusetts veterans was everywhere 
the signal for outbursts of applause. The department was an army in it- 
self and marched with unsurpassed precision. 

Post 2 carried the original Stars and Stripes, an emblem which created 
intense interest. The custodian of this precious banner is Mrs. Samuel 



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Bayard Stafford of Cottage City, Mass. Her husband's father, Lieut. lames 
Bayard Stafford, was the man who, when this flag was shot from the 
masthead of Paul Jones' Bon Homme Richard, during her encounter with 
and brilliant victory over the English vessel, the Serapis, plunged over- 
board, rescued it and nailed it to the mast, where it proudly waved until the 
battle was won. While performing this daring and heroic act he received a 
sabre stroke on the shoulder by a British officer, which disabled him for 
life. In recognition of this conspicuous feat of gallant bravery and for 
meritorious services in the war, the flag, together with a boarding sword and 
musket captured from the Serapis, was afterwards presented to him ; and 
all three trophies have since remained in the Stafford family. The flag 
bears evident marks of this great Revolutionary conflict, having in it several 
bullet holes and the rents made from nailing it to the mast. Its origin and 
history are very interesting in view of the glorious achievements wrought 
under it since Paul Jones raised it in triumph over his British adversary. 

Its idea was taken from General Washington's family ensign by patriotic 
ladies in Philadelphia, who made the flag and presented it to the heroic 
commander of the Bon Homme Richard. He immediately sailed with it 
up and down the Schuylkill river to show the people of the country what 
their future National ensign would be. Afterward it received its baptism of 
blood in the great battle alluded to. It was the first stars and stripes ever 
saluted by a foreign power — the French. It was exhibited at Philadelphia 
Centennial in 1876, also at the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, and 
it will be shown at the World's Fair in the city of Chicago, in 1893. 

The noble lady who is its custodian disclaims real ownership of it, 
saying it belongs to the people. Thousands of dollars have been offered for 
its possession ; but in comparison with its historic worth money is of no 
value to its keeper. The beautiful old banner — beautiful in its rags and 
tatters — is her constant companion and delight. She guards it with jealous 
care ; but with true patriotic interest and love of country, which is her leading 
characteristic, she exhibits it freely to the people, especially to the young, that 
all may gain inspiration and loyalty in beholding it and touching its sacred 
folds. It is her intention to retain the custody of it while she lives, and at 



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her decease have it placed in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. She 
is seventy years of age ; but with a most keen and lively interest she reviewed 
the entire parade from the presidential stand in Copley square. The original 
letter of presentation is in the hands of Mrs. Stafford, and is as follows: — 

Philadelphia. Pa., Sept. ist. 17S4. 
James Bayard Stafford. 

Sir : I am directed by the committee to inform you that on Thursday, the 9th, they 
decided to bestow upon you, for your meritorious service in the late war, Paul Jones' starry 
flag of the Bon Homme Richard (which was transferred to the Alliance), a boarding sword 
of the same ship, and a musket captured from the Serapis. 

If you write to Captain John Brown, at the yard, what ship you wish them sent by. 
they will he forwarded to you. 

Your humble servant, 

James Meyler, Secretary pro tan. 

■■ Unfurl to the breeze, on land and <>n sea, 
Our emblem of liberty — the flag of the tree : 
The Army shall wield it as their J "itre of power, 
The Navy -hall shield it as the hofSe of Hie hour; 
While the Smith with the North proclaim in one voice, 
The flag of our Union is the flag of our choice. 
* * * 

•• In the blood of martyrs its folds are imbrued, 
By their spirit of valor forever renewed: 
And nations afar shall catch its bright gleam : 
Their beacon of freedom — our flag without seam.'' 




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HE joint reception to the Grand Army of the Republic 
and the Woman's Relief Corps, in Mechanics Hall, on 
Tuesday evening, was a brilliant affair. Shortly after eight 
o'clock the veterans and ladies began to assemble. There 
was an immense concourse, that completely filled the great 
auditorium. While waiting for the arrival of the President 
and guests, ^jptial music was rendered by the Salem Cadet 
Band, and singing by the audience, x>{ "John Brown," 
"America," and other patriotic airs. President Harrison 
and the other leading speakers, the while, were at the 
reception tendered by the Mayors' Club, at Young's Hotel. 

It was half-past nine o'clock when Gen. Alger appeared on the platform, 
and was received with enthusiasm. A few minutes later, amid deafening 
plaudits, came Gen. Sherman. Something had to be done to appease the 
growing impatience of the audience ; and George W. Creasey, Past Depart- 
ment Commander of Massachusetts, said : — 

" My Friends : You have been remarkably quiet for an audience so 
large as this ; and I must simply request that you bear a little longer until 
His Excellency, the Governor, shall- arrive, and with him the President. In 
the meantime, permit me to present to you Miss Clara Barton, President of 
the Red Cross Association." 

Miss Barton simply bowed her acknowledgments to the audience and 
passed from the platform. Fifteen minutes more elapsed, and then Comrade 
Creasey began another address, to the effect that they were still waiting 



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the arrival of the President and his party. During' the interval he would 
present Department Commander Innis, who would make a few remarks. 
Comrade Innis said: — 

"The hour is getting late; main - of our invited guests are late, and the 
Department has got to come in, and I suppose we shall have to wait until 
it gets here. Our Commander-in-Chief and the chairman are very tired, and 
it would be a shame to call upon them to say a word to you tonight after 
what the}- have gone through in the past twenty-four hours. But on behalf 
of the Department of Massachusetts I tender to you, friends, a soldier's 
welcome. I want to thank you, my visiting comrades, and the ladies of 
the Woman's Relief Corps, for your kindness in bringing this Encampment 
within the borders of Massachusetts, where you have given my Department 
a chance to once more touch elbow to elbow with you on the line <<i march. 
While I was waiting today to take my position in the parade, memory 
carried me back to the time when I stood on the sidewalk at Washington, 
and watched our beloved Gen. Sherman, with' his army, pass before me. It 
took me back to those days, the vivid memories of which have passed through 
my mind more than once this week. Those scenes I shall never forget. 
Friends, you are very kind in coming here and exhibiting the patience you 
have shown in waiting for our party to arrive. I will have to close 1>\ 
thanking you on behalf of the Department of Massachusetts of the Grand 
Army of the Republic." 

More shouts were heard for "Sherman" at this point. 

Comrade Creasey, rising to introduce "Old Tecumseh," said: "I desire- 
to introduce to you a delegate from the state of Missouri — one whose distin- 
guished services during the war associate him in our memories with Lincoln, 
Grant, Sheridan and other historic representatives ami generals. I intro- 
duce to you Gen. William T. Sherman." 

c/lddress o/" Gen. Sherman. 



"My Friends: I cannot hope that my voice will reach beyond the 
middle of the room, and it was with extreme reluctance that I arose this 



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evening, because your programme clearly defines what we assembled for. 
The governor of your state and the mayor of your city were the first to 
welcome this Grand Army of the Republic. To this our Commander-in- 
Chief was to reply with thanks. That was simply form, and on that form 
you could build up a pyramid if you chose ; but to start and leave me in 
front would be to make these performances of this evening more protracted 
than were those of today. Now, the mayor of your great city of Boston 
has taken your Chief Magistrate and, I suppose, has given him a good dinner 
and a good supper, as though he came from a starving state ; and I hope 
you, my fellow soldiers — for I am addressing my fellow soldiers, not the 
citizens of Boston — I want you to let that mayor understand distinctly 
that the Grand Army of the Republic has an organization of its own, so 
when we come here we can bring our rations along with us if necessary. 
Now, for your Uncle Billy to stand up here and kill time is not to be 
thought of. It is not my business. There was a time when we did killing, 
and I am not going to speak against time in this vast hall. Then you have 
got to be patient until our party arrives. We have waited and waited many 
a year for events of less importance than this. 

" You stand beneath this beautiful roof, with all around you symbols 
that remind you of the glory of your country much more eloquently than 
any speech you can listen to. Our Commander-in-Chief will return to you 
our warmest expressions and kind feeling, and the thanks of this Grand 
Army for Boston's cordial greeting to us. We would express to you before 
all the world that we are grateful, that we recognize the kindly acts of our 
neighbors and friends, that we are alive to sympathy, that our hearts go 
forth to every one, young and old — that as long as life is given to us old 
soldiers we intend to carry all of our share of the burdens of life; but we 
are willing — yea, anxious — to turn out with the boys, and to praise them for 
their efforts. But I saw some boys today in the ranks who, I fear, did not 
get very far down South ; but certainly it was a noble, gorgeous display of 
men. Our people are profoundly grateful to you, and I wish to repeat that 
in your presence. If you are patient now for a little while you will soon 
have them all here, including the President and his cabinet. They could not 



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help this delay this evening-. They were on that stand, as you know, from 
early morn till dewy eve, and they have gone off to Young's Hotel to get 
supper, on the theory that we had none at the Vendome, although I had a 
first-class supper there. I can testify to that. Now if you will be patient, 
in a short time I am sure we will come out O. K." 

At half-past ten o'clock Past Department Commander Adams entered 
the hall with the long-expected guests, who were received with deafening 
applause. Among those seated on the platform were — 

■ President Harrison. Vice-President Morton. Secretary Proctor, Secretary Noble, Admiral 
Gherardi, Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, Mrs. Armilla Cheney, Mrs. Abbie Lynch, Mrs. L. A. 
Turner. Mrs. Sarah A. C. Plummer. Miss Clara Barton, Mrs. Emma B. Lowd, Mrs. E. Florence 
Barker, Mrs. Sarah E. Fuller, Mis. Kate B. Sherwood, Mrs. D'Arcv Kinne. Mrs. Mary E. 
Knowles, Mis. E. V. Lang, Mrs. Ague- Parker. Mi-- Mary E. Wright. Mrs. J. Sewell Reed. Mr-. 
Olive M. Long. Mrs. Husband, Gen. Alger ami start". Gov. Brackett. Maj. McKinley, Gen. 
Sherman. Mr. and Mr-. 1',. Read Wales. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Blackburn, Mrs. L. Marble, 
Mr-. Aaron Low. Gen. and Mrs. G. W. Ross. Mrs. Sallie A. Morse. Judge Sherman and Mis- 
Sherman, Mrs. Lawlor, Mr. and Mr-. W. S. ISutler. Mrs. Florence Rich. Mrs. O. P. Maynard, 
Col. Geo. \V. Hooker, Gov. Abbett and staff "f New Jersey, Mis. Geo. \V. Hooker. Past Com- 
manders-in-Chief Merrill, Burdette, Kountz. Rea and Warner. E. W. Breed. Commander and 
Mrs. Innis, fudge Decker. Past Department Commanders Adams. Goodale. Creasey and 
E\ mis. 

When the tumult had subsided, Comrade Creasey introduced Gov. 
Brackett as follows : — 

"The citizens of Massachusetts, the residents of Boston, and the com- 
rades of this Department, with hearts full of pleasure at your coming, extend 
to you the hand of friendship, and with it an earnest and cordial welcome 
to this annual gathering of our Grand Army. Massachusetts remembers 
with pride and gratitude the earnest patriotism and unyielding devotion of 
the citizen, soldier and sailor of our whole country in the great struggle 
which forever established the permanency of our republican institutions ; and 
she desires to extend to you her cordial and hearty welcome. I have the 
honor to present to you His Excellency John O. A. Brackett, Governor of 
the Commonwealth." 



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FRANCIS A. OSBORN, 
1870. 



WILLIAM COGSWELL, 
1872. 



JOHN W. KIMBALL, 
1874. 



A. B. R. SPRAGUE, 

1869. 



AUSTIN S. CUSHMAN, 
1868. 



Past Commanders Department Mass., G. A. R. 



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Address of Gov. Br ache tt. 

" Acting under the authority of the commonwealth, I come into your 
presence tonight in her name and behalf to extend a cordial welcome to 
you each and all. To do this is an official duty. To have the opportunity 
of doing it is a personal privilege and pleasure. My words are not needed, 
however, to bring you the assurance of the sentiments of friendship and 
regard which the people of Massachusetts entertain towards you. This they 
have amply shown today. Coming here from their homes scattered all over 
the commonwealth, thronging the streets of this her capital city, filling the 
air with their acclamations, they have demonstrated their determination to 
do you honor. They have not come from any motive of idle curiosity, merely 
to witness a magnificent pageant. They have come prompted by a spirit of 
patriotic devotion to unite with you in a celebration which will be memorable 
in the annals of the state. They have come to show their respect for you, 
foi what you are, for what you have done in the past, for what you repre- 
sent in the present. Massachusetts never fails to accord the praise which is 
due to brave men and notable women, who, by their loyalty and self-sacrifice, 
have made the Nation of which she forms a part their debtor forever. 

" Wherever beneath the flag of the Republic you may live, whether in 
our own New England, in the great central states, upon the western prairies, 
upon the golden shores of the Pacific, or in the sunny South from which, 
flushed with victory, you returned twenty-five years ago, you are among your 
friends and have been from the moment you came within the borders of the 
Old Bay State. Though the doors of many of our mansions, whose residents 
are absent at the mountains or the sea, may be closed today, the hearts of 
all our citizens are open to you. They appreciate the compliment you have 
paid the commonwealth in selecting her capital as the place of the Encamp- 
ment which marks the completion of the first quarter of a century from the 
victory at Appomattox. They invite you to partake of their hospitality. They 
invite you to feast your eyes and minds upon the scenes of historic interest 
which abound in Massachusetts — Plymouth Rock, Lexington, Concord, 



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Bunker Hill, the Old State House, Faneuil Hall, the Old South and 
the Old North Churches. Inspiring as these scenes are to all men, in no 
breast can they excite so deep an emotion as in that of the old soldier who 
helped to complete the work which was there begun for country, liberty and 
the rights of man. Massachusetts welcomes you to the hearts and hearth- 
stones of her people, and she hopes that your sojourn here may furnish you 
with a rich and radiant fund of experiences which will linger in your minds 
and brighten your memories forever." 

Comrade Creasey said: — 

" Boston, true to her past, true to that generous hospitality which has 
always characterized her, and true to the patriotism of her sons who did so 
much to secure the blessings we are today enjoying, also desires through 
her chief magistrate to extend to you a cordial greeting. Permit me to 
present to you Hon. Thomas X. Hart, mayor of Boston." 



■ Iddiess of (Mayor Hail. 

" In the name of the people of Boston I thank you for having accepted 
our invitation to hold your National Encampment in this city. As you could 
never doubt, and as you have found out by experience, you are all welcome. 
We are glad to see those that fill high places in the National Government, 
especially the President of the United States, whom we all honor. We are 
no less glad to see those who come from the far West, even from the shores 
of the Pacific, and the Grand Army man who is our neighbor and daily 
companion. Our city government decided early in the year to devote S25,ooo 
to the National Encampment of 1890. In order to secure the most satisfac- 
tory expenditure of this sum it was handed over, without condition, to the 
Grand Arm) r committee that is providing for your comfort. The citv govern- 
ment wanted nothing for itself ; it wanted the Encampment in Boston to be 
a success. 

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have heard some muttering about the great cost of the war, and the pen- 
sions and matters of that kind. If the war had not ended as it did twenty- 
five years ago, we should have had two countries, a Northern Union and a 
Southern Confederacy. Each would have maintained a standing army, a 
strong navy and a line of fortifications. These would have cost money, 
a great deal more than we have expended tor pensions anil other subjects 
consequent upon our great war. Our actual expenses of the past twenty-five 
years were a good business investment, I think, having cost the American 
people less than to keep up two governments north and south of the Potomac, 
together with two standing armies, two navies and a double line of fortifica- 
tions. 

" At the same time neither the Northern Union nor the Southern Con- 
federacy would have been content. The whole American people, including 
our brethren of the South, would have demanded that somehow we ought 
to come together again ; for what God has put together, let no man put 
asunder. Twenty-five years ago you prevented that separation. You stood 
in the breach. For that we thank and honor you. And we shall continue 
to do so as long as we are one country, under one flag and one God." 
Comrade Creasey said : — 

" Comrades, during the war we were cheered ami encouraged by kind 
and loving words from wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts; so today, after 
more than twenty-five years have elapsed, and we are endeavoring to smooth 
the pathways of those of our comrades less fortunate than ourselves, we arc- 
assisted by an organization, the hearts of whose members beat in unison 
with ours, and whose highest mission is to assist us in our work. England, 
my friends, had but one Florence Nightingale: but for us there came from 
hundreds of American homes women just as true, just as loyal and just as 
devoted to suffering humanity as she ; and I have the honor of presenting to 
you her counterpart, a lady whom every comrade in the army of the West — 
aye, and all who wore the Union blue — remembers as a kind-hearted, devoted 
mother : Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, National President of the Woman's Relief 
Corps." 



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■ Address of Mrs. *Annie Wittenmyer. 

" I do not know that I shall be able to make any large number of you 
hear; but I desire, on behalf of the Woman's Relief Corps, to thank you for 
these eloquent and gracious words of welcome. I very well understand that 
they are not personal. They are given because of the grand work of the 
Woman's Relief Corps, and because of the high claims of the heroes for 
whom we labored. Nations have had honors all down through the centuries ; 
but there never was an army mustered into battle line which could match 
the army that was mustered for the defence of this country from 1861 to 
[865. 

" They charged a long line of glittering bayonets that protected treason. 
They scaled the highest heights where the stars and bars were floating, and, 
facing belching cannon, they tore the emblem of secession from the flagstaff. 
They pre-empted every foot of American soil for freedom, and with their 
sharp, swift swords they sundered the chains that bound in human slavery 
four millions of slaves, and planted the grand old Stars and Stripes as God 
planted the tree of life for the healing of the nations." 

Referring to the growth of the Woman's Relief Corps, the speaker said : — 

" We began seven years ago with forty-two members, without a dollar in 
our treasury. Today we number over a hundred thousand members, and 
we have in our various treasuries, local and general, Si 65,000. We spent 
last year, or this year just closing, about S"5,ooo, ami in all these seven 
years, ^350,000; and we are just going on spending money and working for 
you. In addition to this, we have opened a home for army nurses, for the 
widows of soldiers, for the broken-down old veteran with his wife. For a 
good while we have been thinking that it was not right that the soldier 
should go to the Soldiers' Home and the wife should go to the poor house. 
We have opened the door for this grand work, and we mean to continue it 
to the end." 

Comrade Creasey said: — 

" It is unnecessary, my friends, for me to speak words of commendation 
regarding our organization of the Grand Army, and you are all familiar with 



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JOHN D. BILLINGS, 




CHAS. D. NASH, 


1884. 


HORACE BINNEY SARGENT, 


1887. 


JOHN W. HERSEY, 


1876-7-8. 


JOHN G, B. ADAMS 


1885. 




1879. 



Past Commanders Dept. of Mass., G. A. R. 



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our distinguished Commander-in-Chief. Permit me, however, to present to 
you Commander-in-Chief Russell A. Alger of the Grand Army of the Republic." 



. /,/■//, ss of Commander-in-Chief Alger- 

" I was notified today that, in your behalf, I was to return thanks to 
the city of Boston and to the commonwealth of Massachusetts for the 
magnificent reception that they have tendered to us, and for all that they 
are doing for us ; and I do it very gladly. I wish to say to Boston, however, 
that when we were asked here we were promised a warranty deed of the 
city, and we think we have pretty nearly completed the title ; but we expect 
the balance of it before we leave. I wish to say to the good people of 
Massachusetts and Boston who are not Grand Army men that we consider 
ourselves a sort of a family of nobility. We have with us tonight the 
distinguished men of the Nation. We have on this platform a man and a 
comrade who occupies the next to the highest position in the world — the 
highest one being that of Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the 
Republic. We are sorry for Comrade Harrison ; but he cannot have that 
office this year. We have with us tonight a man who has led us over 
bloody fields, and whose name is a household word in every loyal home ; and 
we love him and we always love his presence ; and yet he is but Comrade 
Sherman. 

" We have the Vice-President of the United States, a man who during 
the war did great service to aid us who were in the field. We have here 
tonight the Secretary of War, Gen. Proctor ; the Secretary of the Interior, 
Gen. Noble; we have also the Secretary of Agriculture, Gen. Rusk; and 
there may have been a few more of those secretaries strayed in here that I 
have not seen ; but if they are here, we welcome them all. We have here 
tonight one of Ohio's gallant sons, Maj. McKinley. But the beauty of 
our organization, comrades, is that it matters not what station men may 
occupy in civil life in this country : if they served in the army and are 
entitled to membership in our great organization, they are but comrades. 



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We meet here tonight on a common plane ; and it is the glory of the 
organization — it is that which makes it so dear to us all — that we all stand 
on one level, simply comrades. 

"Gov. Brackett and Mr. Mayor: in behalf of this great organization of 
men, 450,000, whose representatives are here tonight, 1 tender to you, sirs, 
the grateful acknowledgments that are due for your generous hospitality ; and 
I assure you that while we stay in this magnificent city of yours, we know 
we shall be full — of joy. We were promised when we came here that you 
had everything and did everything on a magnificent scale; and here we are 
holding this grand camp-fire simply in one of your bedrooms. What Boston 
undertakes to do she will do. ' And again thanking you for your cordial 
greeting, I will say that as long as we remain with you we will try and 
make you glad we came, and possibly when we go." 

Comrade Creasey said: — 

" My Friends : However much we may differ upon the great political 
or social questions every day, this one belief we have in common : that the 
sun does not shine upon a government better than the one under which we 
live ; and none appreciate more highly or are willing to sacrifice more for 
its welfare and success than those who fought to preserve it. Comrades, I 
have the pleasure of introducing to you our honored and distinguished Com- 
rade, the President of the United States 



Address oj President Harrison. 



" I have had impressions both pleasurable and painful as I have looked 
upon this great procession of veterans which swept through the streets of 
this historic capital today : pleasure in the contemplation of so many faces 
of those who shared together the peril and the glory of the great struggle 
for the Union ; sensations of a mournful sort, as I thought how seldom we 
should meet again, not many times more here. As I have stood in the 
great National cemetery at Arlington, and have seen those silent battalions 
of the dead, I have thought how swiftly the reaper is doing his work. 



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and how soon, in the scattered cemeteries of this land, the ashes of all the 
soldiers of the great war shall be gathered to honored -raves. And yet I 
could not help but feel that in the sturdy tread of those battalions there 
was yet strength of heart and limb that would not be withheld if a present 
peril should confront the Nation that we love. And if Arlington is the 
death, we saw today, in the springing step of those magnificent battalions of 
the Sons of Veterans, the resurrection. They are coming on to take out- 
places. The Nation will not be defenceless when we are gone ; but those 
who have read, about the firesides of the veterans' homes in which they 
were born and reared, the lessons of patriotism and the stories of heroism, 
will come fresh armed to any conflict that may confront us in the future. 
And so tonight we may again, from this magnificent spectacle, feel a fresh 
and strong sense of security for the permanence of our country and her free 
institutions. 

" I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from 
official duties at Washington to mingle with you here today as a comrade; 
because every President of the United States must realize that the strength 
of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its 
banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the mass of our 
people. And so, as my furlough is almost done, and the train is already 
waiting that must bear me back to Washington, I can only express again 
the cordial, sincere and fraternal interest which I have felt this day in 
meeting with you all. I can only hope that God will so order the years 
that are left to you that, for you and those who are dear to you, they may 
be ordered in all gentleness, in all prosperity and success ; and that when at 
last the comrades who survive you shall wrap the flag of the Nation about 
your body and bear it to the grave, you may die in peace and in the hopes 
of a glorious resurrection." 

Immediately at the close of his speech, at 10.45 o'clock, President Har- 
rison and party and Gov. Brackett left the hall. As the President marched 
along the front of the platform the hands of many of the veterans were 
stretched up to him, and he grasped them, one after another, with hearty 
welcome. He left the platform amid great cheering. Calls were given for 



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Vice-President Morton and Maj. McKinley. Maj. McKinley could not be 
prevailed upon to respond, but Vice-President Morton spoke briefly as follows, 
his rising being greeted with loud cheering : — 



Address of Vice-President Morton. 

"Boston tonight is the centre of patriotic memories. The representatives 
of that Grand Army which was the expression and embodiment of the 
Nation's purpose and patriotism are here. The occasion, therefore, brings 
to all our minds the greatest ami gravest event in all our national life — the 
supreme crisis of free government, not only here, but throughout the world. 
In that crisis in which you bore the greatest part, the issue was settled 
upon the side of justice, freedom and indissolubility of the Union. May the 
Nation which was preserved ami regenerated by your valor and sacrifice, in 
the language of Mr. Lincoln, never perish from the earth ; ami may the 
Government thus preserved ever keep in generous remembrance and kindly 
care you and your descendants." 

Brief remarks were also made by Mrs. Mary E. Knowles, President of 
the Massachusetts Department of the Woman's Relief Corps, after which, 
about ii p.m., the ceremonies were declared by Comrade Creasey to be at 
an end, and the great company, except the veterans who were to remain 
there for the night, slowly dispersed. 



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iMORNING SESSION. 



HE Twenty-fourth annual session of the National En- 
campment of the Grand Army of the Republic opened 
in Music Hall on Wednesday morning, Aug. 13, at 
1 1 o'clock. It was a noble-looking body of men that 
assembled there to transact the important business 
which was so soon to occupy their earnest attention. 
The proceedings of the day were advertised to begin 
an hour earlier ; but an extended meeting of the 
National Council of Administration made it impossible for Commander-in- 
Chief Alger to open the proceedings until the hour named. 

The hall was beautifully decorated, and the scene in the body of the 
house, occupied by delegates, and the galleries, by veterans, was one which, 
for attractiveness to the eye, has never been surpassed at a Grand Army 
Encampment. 

The Commander-in-Chief was given a cordial reception on his appearance 
upon the platform. Past Chaplain-in-Chief I. M. Foster opened the exercises 
by prayer, at the conclusion of which Commander-in-Chief Alger requested 
Gen. Sherman, who sat with his Post on the floor of the house, to come to the 
platform. Amid great applause, the General arose ; and when quiet had been 
restored, he thanked the Encampment, but said he preferred to remain with 
the Missouri delegation. The Commander-in-Chief then addressed the con- 
vention as follows: — 



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Gen. Alger's Address. 



" Comrades: Fortunately for us we arc permitted to gather here in this 
historic city, justly named the 'Cradle of Liberty,' to celebrate the twenty- 
fifth anniversary of the surrender of the armed forces against this Government 
to the Union army. We also celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
actual freedom of all races within her borders. Near here was 'fired the 
shot heard round the world' and were fought the first battles of the Revolu- 
tion. How main' patriots in later days have been inspired to perform heroic 
deeds by the example of those patriots who first declared this land should 
be free, and have tried to emulate their examples, the scores of fields which 
have tested the courage of these generations whose representatives are 
gathered here today will answer. To name one or a dozen of them without 
including all would be the same act of injustice as would the recording the 
deeds of a single man, omitting others. It is sufficient for lis to know that 
when called, men were found lor every place. 

" While we lament the loss of nearly all of our old commanders, it is a 
source of great consolation and pleasure to know that one of those great 
leaders of men is still spared to us anil is in our midst today. Upon him 
this Nation is pouring its wealth of love and gratitude. Let us hope and 
pray that he may Ion- be permitted to remain here, our leader, our com- 
mander, our idol and our comrade. God bless you, Gen. Sherman! Our 
A'tv for rou is beyond words. 

"Comrades, it is not my intention today to burden you with the details 
of the workings of this organization, nor to repeat to any great extent what 
can be found in the reports of my staff officers. Their work has been 
zealously and conscientiously performed, and I commend their reports to 
your careful scrutiny. For my own work I can only say that, while 1 have 
given to it a great share of my time and the best of my ability, I am pain- 
fullv conscious of having filled but a small fraction of the demands. The 
organization and the country are so great that it is an impossible task for 
any man, in the short space of one year, to visit any considerable portion 
of the more than seven thousand Posts that now exist. 



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" I have attended twenty-three Department Encampments ; have, as you 
are possibly aware, visited many of the Departments at several different 
times, and have been more than gratified to learn that everywhere, among 
the most honored and trusted citizens, among the men holding official posi- 
tions and achieving success in private life, are found many of the men who 
served in the Union army and now wear the badge of the Grand Army of 
the Republic. 

" The condition of the organization, I am happy to report, is, with 
few exceptions, excellent. There have been, I regret to say, some disagree- 
ments in the Department of Louisiana and Mississippi, drawn upon the 
color line, the details of which will be found in the records of the Judge- 
Advocate General. 

" It is the same question that is today disturbing many localities in the 
southern part of this country, and which will require patience and concessions 
from all parties to settle. It is a perplexing one ; but I trust time, with the 
good intentions of all peace and liberty-loving citizens, will bring such modera- 
tion of council that in the near future all may share the rights granted by 
our laws, and that harmony will prevail everywhere. 

" It has been my determination to recognize as a comrade the equal 
rights of every man, no matter what his color or nationality, provided he 
has the two qualifications, service and honorable discharge. In this great 
struggle of life, the strong should aid the weak. It ennobles the former 
and helps to elevate the latter. A synopsis of the opinions of the Judge- 
Advocate General, those approved and those disapproved, will be found in 
the report of the Adjutant-General. 

"The official reports presented to the Twenty-third National Encamp- 
ment, dated June 30, 1889, gave the number of comrades in good and 
regular standing, 382,617. Total members then suspended and delinquent, 
28,088, making a total membership as borne on the rolls at that date of 
410,686. 

June 30, 1S90. 
The total number of comrades in good and regular standing was 427,981 

Total membership borne on rolls -158.230 

Number of Posts reported June 30, 18S9 6,711 

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Number of Posts reported June y>. 1890 ..... 7. 1 7S 

Number of deaths during the year ....... 5 47'' 

♦Number of new Departments ........ 2 

" I am constrained to say that I do not believe the number of deaths 
reported, as stated, is even approximately correct. Not, however, on account 
of any fault of the Posts ; but as comrades grow feeble they neglect their 
Posts, are dropped from the rolls, when in fact their health is such they 
are unable to attend : and thus many die who are not reported. 

" The increase in membership of the different Departments and relative 
percentages are given in the annexed table. Of course the new Departments 
of North Dakota, Indian Territory and Oklahoma took their memberships 
from the Departments of Dakota, Kansas and Texas, and allowance will be 
made for the changes made thereby in numbers of those departments. 

"While our numbers make up a vast army, it is confidently believed that 
not one-half of those who are eligible belong to this organization. Many live 
remote from Posts ; many are physically unable to attend, and many, through 
lack of means, do not feel that they can pay the expenses incident to 
membership. 

" I recommend that, as far as practicable, Posts carry upon their rolls 
all worth)' members whom they know to be financially unable to pay these 
expenses. Of course, all who are able to and do not pay their dues should 
be dropped; but great charity should be exercised in the cases of those who 
are not. 

" I wish to urge upon comrades the importance of securing, at the earliest 
possible moment, the individual record of the services of the enlisted men. 
The history of the war will never be written until it includes such record. 
Let them be deposited with their Posts, anil they will be preserved. 

Pensions. 



" The subject of pensions has been, as all are aware, the all-absorbing 
one of the year. During the early days of the present Congress it became 



Including the Provisional Department of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. 



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evident to the pension committee, whose report is before you, that the 
'service bill,' so much desired, could not be enacted into a law, many members 
of both branches of Congress declaring that they could not vote for an amount 
that, taken with the regular expenditures of the government, would exceed 
its revenues. I am aware that many are disappointed ; but the committee 
has been powerless to accomplish more than has already been done. It is now 
believed that the expenditures in pensions, under existing laws, will exceed 
one hundred and fifty millions of dollars annually. More than three hundred 
thousand applications have been made to the Commissioner of Pensions under 
the new disability law, and he informs me that applications are coming in at 
the rate of about ten thousand per day. Large as this sum is, it is a great 
gratification to know that it is distributed among our own people. Four 
times a year this money goes to all parts of the country. There is not a 
community which does not feel its influence, and to which it is not a help. 
It pays the necessary bills to the merchant and the farmer, who in turn are 
able to pay their debts, and so on. While these are not reasons for paying 
pensions, they are a source of consolation to the people who bear the burden. 

" Since the war, the nation has doubled in population, and more than 
quadrupled in wealth. Its prosperity is known to no other land ; and I am 
sure its people are gladly contributing to the support of those who, at every 
sacrifice, made it possible for it to be what it is. 

" Much misapprehension exists, I think, concerning the disability bill 
heretofore referred to, passed under date of June 27, 1890. Let me quote 
from Sect. 2 : 'All persons who served ninety days or more in the military 
or naval service of the United States during the late War of the Rebellion, 
and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now, or 
who may hereafter be, suffering from a mental or physical disability of a 
permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which 
incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor in such a degree 
as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon making due proof 
of the fact, according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the 
Interior may provide, be placed upon the lists of invalid pensioners of the 
United States, and be entitled to receive a pension not exceeding twelve 

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dollars per month, and not less than six dollars per month, proportioned to 
the degree of inability to earn support.' 

•• Under the official rules and regulations attached to the bill are the 
following : This law requires in a soldier's case, 

" i. An honorable discharge. 

" 2. That he has served at least ninety days. 

"3. A permanent physical or mental inability to earn support, but not 
due to vicious habits. (It need not have originated in the service.) 

•' By a careful reading of this law, and the official explanation of above 
quoted, it will be seen that, no matter what a man's financial condition may 
be, if he be physically disabled from performing manual labor, he is entitled 
to a pension, the conditions being, first, physical disability, not necessarily 
contracted in the service ; and second, that proof of such disability may be 
made upon certificate, from his physician probably, and without the testimony 
of his former comrades. Should any member of this Encampment today 
receive a permanent injury 'not the result of his own vicious habits,' he 
will lie entitled to a pension. Let us be just to our law-makers, even though 
they have not given us all we ask. No country on earth is or ever has 
been nearly as generous to its soldiers as ours. 

[Memorial T>ay. 



"As the years pass, the interest shown by not only the comrades, but 
by the citizens generally, in the services of this hallowed day, vastly increases 
both North and South wherever the grave of the Union soldier is marked. 
As an example, the Chaplain of the Department of Michigan reports that in 
his Department over 303,000 citizens and over 39,000 children participated in 
memorial exercises the present year. 

" The Quartermaster-General purchased and sent flags to the cemeteries 
in the South, which were placed at the heads of the graves of our gallant 
dead upon that daw I hope this may not only grow into a custom, but that 
it may be ordered that, in communities where it is not probable that flags 
will be furnished for this purpose, the Grand Army of the Republic will see 
to it that they are supplied. 

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" It has been my pleasure in going over the country to find in many 
cities and towns, as also in the country, flags floating over the public school- 
houses. Let us hope that the time will soon come when this beautiful custom 
will be universal, and that the Union flag may not only be found upon the 
schoolhouses, but in every home, and that the love for the old stars and 
stripes shall prevail everywhere. 

Charity. 

" There has been expended in charity, according to our official records, 
during the past year, $217,650.52. Of course this is no measure of the 
money collected and expended in a private way, nor does it include the great 
sums collected and expended by the heroic women who were our strong 
right arm in war, and are now donating their time to our dependent comrades 
and their widows and children. We shall never know of the great good 
these noble women are doing in our behalf. They should receive every 
possible encouragement ; and they have, I know, the thanks of every man 
who wore the Union blue. Hold up their hands in the work they are doing. 

Sons of Veterans. 

"This organization, numbering over one hundred and twenty-five thousand 
members, is growing rapidly, and is reported in excellent condition. We 
should do everything in our power to aid them in their work. They are 
our boys, and to them we must soon commit our trust. 

" Wherever I have been in the different Departments, I have received 
marked courtesies from them, and am glad to be able in this public manner 
to acknowledge the same, and to say, God speed you, young men, in your 
patriotic work. 

'The Grant Cottage. 



"The Twenty-third Encampment left it optional with the National Council 
of Administration to provide for the care of the last earthly resting place of 



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our beloved old commander; and while it should be kept as a sacred relic, 
it is a question for your careful consideration as to whether or not this 
expense should be borne by the Grand Army of the Republic. 

" It is situated in a place inaccessible in winter, and upon a plat of 
land which, under the will bequeathing it, reverts to the original owner 
should the cottage be consumed by file. This, perhaps, was a wise provision, 
;is the land would Lie of little value without the cottage; but the question of 
its future maintenance and repairs — it being of wood and needing constant 
care -is one that should be carefully considered. 

The Gen. Logan Monument . 



"The funds in the hands of the trustees for the Logan monument, 
outside of the appropriation made by Congress for the site and pedestal, 
amount to $12,841.67. I sincerely trust that the time is not far distant 
when this tribute to this beloved leader will have been completed. Iowa 
Circle, in the city of Washington, has been selected as the permanent site 
for this monument. It is, as you are aware, a beautiful place, and was 
selected in accordance with the wishes of Mrs. Logan. 

'The Gen. Sheridan Monument. 

" In accordance with the wishes of the Societv of the Army of the 
Cumberland, expressed at its last annual meeting, General Orders No. 16, 
dated June 28, 1890, were issued from these headquarters to the Posts 
throughout the country, asking for contributions of from ten to twenty-five 
cents per member, to be sent in at an early date, for the erection of an 
equestrian statue to the memory of our lamented comrade, Gen. Philip 
H. Sheridan, and that such contributions be forwarded to me as treasurer of 
the fund, or brought here and delivered to the treasurer at this Encampment. 

" Under this order there has been received to Aug. 2d, inclusive, S447.94. 
Congress has heretofore passed a law granting $40,000 each for the purchase 
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Unless this law can be so amended that a portion of the amount not needed 
as specified can be converted to the purchase of statues, when we consider 
the fact that an equestrian statue costs about $30,000, it is evident that the 
time for their final completion is far distant. These works should all be 
pushed with the utmost vigor. 

The Gen. Grant Monument . 



" An ordinary plain vault on the banks of the Hudson marks the resting 
place of our great chieftain. This is not creditable either to us or to this 
Nation. There should be erected at the capital of this Government, dedicated 
to the memory of this great man, a memorial building such as will be a 
credit to the whole people. Not a shaft; not a statue; but a monumental 
structure such as has not been builded in this or any other country — one 
to which every citizen within the domains of this great land can refer with 
just pride. 

" I recommend that a committee of five be appointed by this Encamp- 
ment, whose duties shall be in accordance with the foregoing, and empowered 
to solicit aid from the general government and from individuals. I think 
we give too little thought to patriotic sentiment, to the glories of the past, 
and to the shrine of the veteran — The Oi.n Flag! Too little thought to 
the blessings we enjoy! Every patriotic act, every subscription to a monu- 
ment fund, every dollar devoted to the relief of the suffering, every gathering 
where patriotic sentiments are expressed, help to build a wealth that cannot 
be represented in figures, because every such act breathes the life that will 
perpetuate our love for the Nation anil continue its prosperity. 



Hartranft. 



" Comrade John F. Hartranft, the fifth Commander-in-Chief, within the 
year has responded to the call of the Great Commander, and now has his 
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"Hartranft, the modest, kind and brave soldier, the honored, loved and 
trusted citizen — his memory is a living fragrance of deeds well done. 

"Comrades, the honor conferred upon me by the Twenty-third National 
Encampment in electing me your Commander-in-Chief was by far the greatest 
I have ever received. The task of performing the duties of the office is 
indeed a great one ; but with it are mingled the greatest pleasures that can 
come to man in this world, outside of his own sacred home ; and while life 
shall last I shall never cease to be thankful that this great trust was, for a 
time, committed to my keeping. 

" For your generosity, your aid, and for your many acts of personal 
kindness, I thank you most sincerely, and hope you will carry my grateful 
acknowledgments to those of our number not permitted to be here. Wherever 
I have been I have found the same enthusiastic, loyal sentiment of comrade- 
ship shown here today. May it grow stronger and stronger while we are 
permitted to live ; and when the end comes here, may we be gathered in 
that great camp where the bugle sounds neither the reveille nor ' lights out.' 
" -Again and again I thank you." 

The address was frequently applauded, and his references to Gen. 
Sherman aroused great enthusiasm. 



Report of the Adjutant-General 



The report of the Adjutant - General, George H. Hopkins, stated: 
" Owing to the fact that the Twenty-fourth National Encampment is held 
two weeks earlier in the year than the preceding Encampment, the reports 
from some of the Departments are not as full as they would have been 
had more time been given to the Posts in the various Departments to make 
their reports. When you assumed command of the Grand Army of the 
Republic there were forty-two Departments, with 6,71 1 Posts, and a member- 
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ending June 30, 1890, shows forty-three Departments, with a Provisional 
Department of Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and a membership in good 
standing of 427,981, being a net gain of two Departments, 464 Posts and 
47,1 16 comrades. 



'Recapitulation. 



Members in good standing, June 30. 1SS9 

Gain by muster 
Gain by transfer 
Gain by reinstatement . 
Gain from delinquent reports 
Total gain . 

Aggregate .... 

Loss by death 

Loss by honorable discharge 
Loss by transfer 
Loss by suspension 
Loss by dishonorable discharge 
Loss by delinquent reports . 
Total loss 

Members in good standing June 30, 1S90 



Net gain in membership in good standing, 47,116. 
Net gain in I'o>ts reporting, 464. 
Members remaining suspended .... 
Members last quarter by delinquent reports 
Total in suspension 

Total members on rolls June 30, 1890 
Adding to this those on transfer (who are, of course. 
Total membership .... 



3 S2,6. 7 



40,027 

S.3-0 

20.460 

13: 1 33 



5>476 

r.774 

10,277 

6,1 11 

537 
12,406 



25- 14° 
2,389 



still members of the Order) 



8 1,945 
464,562 



36,581 

427,981 



27-529 
455-5io 



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" The loss by delinquent reports is caused chiefly by the negligence of 
Post officers in failing to make their reports ; and it would seem that there 
is no excuse on the part of these officers for this negligence. 

"If to the number of 427,981 in good standing June 30, 1890, were 
added tile number lost by delinquent reports, and the number suspended 
(who, although suspended, are still members of the Order), there would be a 
total membership upon the rolls of 455,510; to such should also be added 
2,720 who are out on transfer cards. 

"The number of deaths during the year was 5,476. The amount 
expended for relief for the year ending March 31, 1890, was $221,350.18; 
number of comrades relieved, 19,470; others relieved, 8,949: total number 
relieved, 28,419. 

" In this sum, no mention is made of the large amount of private aid 
expended bv thousands of our members individually or collectively, and of 
which no record can be kept. For the quarter ending June 30, 1S90, 
$51,599.01 was expended. 

"The total amount expended by the Grand Army from July 1, 1871, 
to Jul) r 1, 1890, amounts to the enormous sum of S 1,987,534.55. 

" In the table showing the progression made during each quarter in the 
last thirteen years, the following shows the gain in six Departments which 
take the lead : Ohio, 2,953 ; Missouri, 2,028 ; Massachusetts, 1,043 i Tennessee, 
963; Indiana, 957; Illinois, 779. 

"Two new Departments have been organized. The Department of 
North Dakota, embraced in the territorial limits of the state of North Dakota, 
was organized at Grand Forks, North Dakota, on April 24, 1890. Comrade 
George B. Winship was elected Department Commander, who appointed 
Comrade William Ackerman as Assistant Adjutant-General, with headquarters 
at Grand Forks. 

"The Provisional Department of Indian Territory and Oklahoma was 
authorized by special orders No. 21, dated June 23, 1890, and a Department 
Encampment was called for the purpose of organizing a permanent Depart- 
ment at Guthrie on the seventh day of August, 1890." 



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%F.POKT OF THE SlfRGF.ON -GENERAL. 



The report of Horace P. Porter, M.D., of Foster, Mo., is best summarized 
by his recommendations, as follows : That hereafter the Inspectors of Posts 
shall be required to examine all of the officers of all Posts within their 
jurisdiction concerning their knowledge of General and Department orders 
and circulars and the edicts of the National and their Department Encamp- 
ments which affect them in their respective stations. That Post Surgeons 
who are physicians and past Medical Directors be admitted to full delegates' 
privileges in their Department Encampments, and that present Medical 
Directors anil past Surgeons-General be hereafter included in the rolls of 
the National Encampments, provided that the officers herein-above mentioned 
are in good standing in the order. That this Encampment use all honorable 
means to secure the enactment of an amendment to the effect that the 
Secretary of the Department of the Interior, when considering pension claims 
under the old law which are based upon disability that was practically latent 
for several years after the war, may exercise discretion in the matter of the 
continuance or pathological continuity of said disability ; and in case of a 
war disability, that is exceedingly prevalent among ex-soldiers as a class, he 
may, when the facts seem to warrant such action on his part, assume the 
incurrence of said disability in the service. The early establishment of a 
commodious branch of the National Military Home for disabled volunteer 
soldiers at some point remote from probable epidemic infection on either the 
Atlantic or Gulf coast of the peninsula portion of the state of Florida. 
The fact is emphasized that the possibility of making an institution of this 
kind self-sustaining (particularly in a sub-tropical climate) is worthy of 
serious consideration. 

Dr. Porter expressed his belief that the Grand Army of the Republic 
should have its own disability records. Those in the hands of the Govern- 
ment are not accessible. The Grand Army of the Republic has never 
made a great effort to show the world how much the soldier sacrificed 
in diminution of life prospects, or that these life-shortening and comfort- 
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imagination. An annua] per capita tax of one cent upon our membership 
would maintain for several years, at least, a Grand Army of the Republic 
Bureau of Vital Statistics, where facts could be accumulated that are going: 
to he needed in the near future to meet a wholesale denunciation of the 
legitimate claims of the ex-soldier. 



%EPORT OF THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL. 

Inspector-General L. E. Griffith of Troy, N. Y., reported that the 
Order is not only growing numerically stronger, but is working earnestly 
and harmoniously in furthering the grand objects for which it was organ- 
ized. A glance at the amounts expended for charity by the Posts in the 
several Departments will prove that no organization on the face of the 
earth more constantly patrols that broad road between Jerusalem and Jericho 
in the exercise of the sweet office of ministering to the helpless and 
unfortunate. 

"I regret," he said, "that reports from several Departments show that 
not one-half of the Posts have been inspected. The rules and regulations 
(Article V., Chapter V.) require that there shall be a thorough inspection of 
each Post every year. The reason for this must be obvious. We cannot 
secure uniformity of work and a compliance with our ritual and laws unless 
a thorough inspection of each Post shall be made every year ; and that 
inspection should be made by a comrade, assigned to such duty, who is not 
a member of the Post to be inspected. Neither should assignments to 
such, duty be made only to compliment a comrade nor to repay a debt of 
obligation; but rather in the interest of the good of the organization and 
with reasonable assurance of a prompt ami intelligent discharge of the duty 
imposed. The inspection should have been completed by June 30; yet 
some of the Departments have waited until August 5 before sending their 
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from National headquarters. I have been delayed and greatly embarrassed 
by the negligence of Department and assistant inspectors, and respectfully 
suggest that some means should be devised to secure a more thorough 
inspection of Posts and a more prompt return from Departments." 

Arizona reports S Posts, with a membership of 317: expended in charity, $310.98. 
Arkansas reports 67 Posts, with a membership of 1,532: expended in charity, $647.7;. 
California reports 155 Posts, with a membership of 6,163: expended in charitv. $2,857 7 ; 
Connecticut reports S4 Posts, with a membership of 6.740: expended in charitv, $10,596 8j ; 

relief fund. $63,009.29; Post fund. $19,787.63: value of other property. $39,415 45. This 

Department gained two Posts during the year. 
Colorado reports S2 Posts, 44 of which report a membership of 2.0S7: expended in charitv, 

$1,744.13. 
Delaware reports 22 Posts, with a membership of 1.1N7 ; expended in charity, $887.25. 
Georgia reports 9 Posts, with a membership of 358. 

Indiana reports 510 Posts, with a membership of 25,043 in good standing; expended in charitv, 

$8,995.42. 
Iowa reports 429 Posts : with members in aood standing. 20.236: expended for charitv. $4,483.40. 
Illinois reports 58; Posts, with a membership of 32.397: expended in charity. $15,206.32. 
Kansas reports 493 Posts, with a membership of 18.445 : expended in charitv. $3,156.67. 
Kentucky reports 173 Posts. 105 of which reported a membership of 4.614. 
Louisiana and Mississippi reports 8 Posts, with a membership of 394 : expended in charitv. 

$172.00. 
Maryland reports the number of Post-. 44: number of members in good standing. 2.319; 

expended in charitv. $521.10. 
Minnesota reports 1S5 Posts, 85 of which show a membership of 4.158. 
Missouri reports 443 Posts, 233 of which report a membership of 13.247: expended in charitv. 

--" 793 '6- 
Montana reports 15 Post«. with a membership of 567. 

Michigan reports the number of Posts 402. with a membership of 14.552 : expended in charitv, 

$6,006.97. 
Maine reports 157 Posts, with a membership of 9.482 ; expended in charitv. $8,028.50: amount 

in relief fund, $9,051.55. 
M \-saciilsetts reports number of Posts, 199: membership, 21.742: expended in charitv, 

$44-7-M-36- 
New Hampshire reports 93 Posts, with a membership of5,047; expended in charity, $4,157.29: 

amount in relief fund, $11,486.65. 



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New Jersey reports 112 Post*, with 7,586 members in good standing: expended in relief. 

$10,966.24. 
New York reports 640 Posts, with a membership of 3S.S9S: expended in charity, $57 .731.49. 
North Dakota reports ^ Posts. 24 of which have a membership of 6S1 : expended in charity, 

$487.96. 

Ohio reports 494 Posts; not reported. 21S; membership in good standing, 36.1S7: expended in 
charity, $16,709.96. 

Oregon reports 46 Posts, with a membersiiip of 1.490: expended in charity, $1,900.19. 

Pennsylvania reports 59S Posts: 44.711 members in good standing; expended in charity, 

$63,396.89. 
Potomac reports 13 Posts; 3,047 members: expended in charity, $375.37. 
Rhode Island reports 21 Posts, with 2,732 members; amount expended in charity, $^,2i j.94 : 

amount in relief fund, $13,513.68; amount in Post fund, $16,911.38: Post property, 

$11,776.75. Every Post in the Department has been inspected. 
South Dakota reports 150 Posts, 31 of which report 1,199 members: expended in charity, 

$1,433.48. 
Tennessee reports the number of Posts. 7S in good standing; membership, 3,469. This is 

not a full report, as it is impossible to obtain the exact number. 
Texas reports 42 Posts, 39 of which show a membership of 831 : expended in charity, 

$194.50. 
Utah reports 2 Posts, with a membership of 129: expended in charity, $253.00. 
Virginia reports 3S Posts, with a membership of 1,215; expended in charity. $338.58. 
Vermont reports 105 Posts, with a membership of 5.247; amount expended in charity, 

$2,500.07: amount in relief fund. $6,402. 

West Virginia reports 97 Posts, of which 63 reported 2,430 members; expended in charity, 
$798.69. 

From the facts and figures in his possession, the Inspector-General has 
compiled a table showing that the number of Posts in the Grand Army on 
June 30, 1890, was 6,928 ; number of comrades in good standing in Posts 
inspected to June 30, 351,244; number of Posts inspected, 5,010; number 
of Posts not inspected, 1,051 ; Posts in which benefits are paid on account 
of sickness, 649; number of Posts having a relief fund for charity, 1,621 ; 
total amount expended for charity, $282,556.01 ; amount remaining in relief 
fund, $475,350.07. 



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QfJ^RTERMASTER-GENER/tL'S %EPORT. 

The report of Quartermaster-General John Taylor of Philadelphia con- 
sisted entirely of figures. One set showed the official in account with the 
Grand Army. It gave cash balance Aug. 31, 18S9, of $12,333.49; receipts 
from sale of supplies, $22,895.35; receipts from per capita tax, $7,611.06; 
interest on United States bonds and deposits, §825.21 : total to be accounted 
for, $43,685.11. The expenditures had amounted to $34,239.30, of which 
815,726.90 had been for the purchase of supplies, and $18,512.40 for inci- 
dentals, postage, salaries, etc. Another table gave the total assets as 
follows: Cash balance, on hand, $9,445.81; due by Departments, $852.11; 
United States bonds, $19,800.00; supplies, $1,571.08: total, $31,669.00. 

The Grant Monument fund was shown to have been increased by 
$981.76 since the last Encampment and to amount to $11,114.55. 



Comrades William A. Wallace of New York, A. U. Reed of Illinois, J. 
W. Thatcher of Connecticut and Thomas D. Rogers of Missouri, and Adju- 
tant-General George H. Hopkins of Detroit, as chairman, were appointed 
a committee on credentials. 

On motion of Commander Clarkson of New York, by unanimous rising 
vote, it was ordered that a portrait of John A. Andrew, the War Governor 
of Massachusetts, be placed upon the platform. 

'Detroit in 1891 . 

A comrade from Michigan presented the following, which, in the shape 
of a map, was hung in front of the desk of the Chair: — 

The following resolutions were unanimously adopted by the Common 
Council of the city of Detroit, July 10, 1890; presented by Alderman Burt: 

Whereas, the annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department 
of Michigan, lias instructed its delegates to the National Encampment of the G. A. R. to 



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use all honorable means to have the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the 
Republic, for the year [891, held at Detroit; 

Whereas, The citizens of Detroit and Michigan are earnestly and heartily in accord 
with this desire, and will assure the brave defenders of the Union, composing that grand 
Order, a most cordial welcome to and hospitable entertainment while in our city; 

Resolved, That the freedom and most generous hospitality of this city is hereby tendered 
to the Grand Army of the Republic, and they are hereby cordially invited, through the 
National Encampment to be held in Boston in August next, and earnestly requested to 
hold their National Encampment in the year iSyi in the city of Detroit. 

A', solved, That a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions be presented to the 
National Encampment at Boston, by the delegates to that Encampment from this state, and 
that his honor, the Mayor, be requested to call a citizens' meeting to take suitable measures 
to assist the members of the Grand Army of the Republic in this state in securing the 
National Encampment in 1S91 in this city. 

1 hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the resolutions adopted by the Common 
Council of the city of Detroit. July 10, 1890. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said city, this 

tenth day of July, iSyo. 

II. S. Pingree, Mayor. 
A. G. Kronberg, City Clerk. 

At noon the convention adjourned until 2 p.m. 

AFTERNOON SESSION. 

It was nearly half-past two o'clock when Commander-in-Chief Alger 
called the Convention to order. During the recess, the Departments had 
been assigned seats in the order of seniority. 

,\ pleasing incident occurred at the opening of proceedings, when the 
Commander-in-Chief announced that a representative from Honolulu desired 
to be heard. Immediately there appeared upon the platform Col. V. V. 
Ashford, Commander of the Hawaiian military forces and Adjutant of Post 
45 of Honolulu. He said that, in response to the wishes of his Post, 
which was the outpost of the Grand Army, he desired to present, for the 
use of the Commander-in-Chief, a gavel made of twelve different kinds of 
native wood. This gift was intended to represent the admiration and zeal 
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The next business in order, under a vote of the Encampment, was the 
nomination of candidates for the office of Commander-in-Chief. 

The roll was called, and the representatives from each state had an 
opportunity to name their choice. California led off by presenting the 
claims of Comrade Smedberg, a retired officer of the regular army, who 
lost his leg at the battle of the Wilderness. The delegate who advanced 
the claims of Comrade Smedberg asked if the Encampment could remember 
a time when a far western state had had a Commander-in-Chief. California 
wanted to put forward a gallant soldier; but whatever might be the result, 
she would be true to the Grand Army and to the comrade selected as its 
leader. 

When Connecticut was called, Comrade Taintor, in an eloquent speech, 
nominated Comrade Wheelock G. Veazey of Vermont, and Maine seconded 
the nomination. At the mention of Comrade Veazey's name there was 
great enthusiasm. 

Indiana gave its support to Comrade Alvin P. Hovey ; and Ohio, with 
a Department of 46,000 members, named Comrade Hovey as its choice. 

Minnesota had no candidate, for its Department had indorsed the 
nomination of Comrade Veazey. Missouri voted for and Nebraska sup- 
ported Comrade Veazey; Montana voted for Comrade Smedberg, and New 
Hampshire, New Jersey, Idaho and Iowa expressed a preference for Com- 
rade Veazey. 

When the state of New York was reached, Comrade Warner Miller 
arose as its representative, and was greeted with prolonged applause. H 
was obliged to take the platform; and after quiet prevailed, he said he 
had been instructed to second the nomination of one whom the delegates 
loved and honored. If New York had no candidate of its own, he did not 
want the Encampment to forget that New York once owned a little strip 
in the Green Mountain state. Although its soil might be unfitted for 
ordinary crops, yet there was one crop it could raise to perfection — the 
crop of loyal men. In conclusion, Comrade Miller named Comrade Veazey 
as the one who would be supported by the entire delegation of New York. 
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named Comrade Veazey. Comrade Pingree of Vermont eulogized the 
services of Comrade Veazey, and said that Vermont sent to the field thirty- 
four thousand of her sons, or more than one in ten of her entire population, 
A larger proportion of her men poured out their blood than of any other 
state of the loyal North. Utah, Virginia, Washington and Alaska wanted 
Comrade Smedberg, and Illinois was the last state to respond for Comrade 
Veazey. Massachusetts would have had an able representative in Past 
Commander-in-Chief Charles Devens, whose familiarity with the soldier and 
judicial record of Comrade Veazey gave him an exceptional opportunity to 
speak in praise of Vermont's choice ; but as the delegation was divided in 
the matter of Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief, it was decided to take 
no part in the selection of Commander-in-Chief. 

As soon as the roll call ended, Comrade Smedberg ascended the platform 
and gracefully withdrew his name; and he was followed by Comrade Hovey, 
who pursued a similar course. This action was greeted with great applause, 
and by unanimous vote Comrade Veazey was declared elected Commander- 
in-Chief. 

Comrades Smedberg, Hovey and Miller were appointed a committee to 
escort Commander-in-Chief-elect Veazey t < > the platform ; and when he 
appeared, there was a great deal of enthusiasm. 

Although suffering from a severe hoarseness, Comrade Veazey succeeded 
in making comrades at the further end of the hall hear his voice. He said : — 



Remarks of Comrade Veazey. 

" Had I the lips of a genius, I should not be able to find words to 
evince the expression of gratitude that is your due, or the feeling of thank- 
fulness that lies down deep in my heart. 

"I recognize the great responsibility of this highest of all offices. I can 
make you but one simple pledge — that, with God's help and your support, 
which I know I shall receive, because you never failed to give it when you 
faced death, I will do everything in my power to preserve untarnished, even 




WHEELOCK G. VEAZEY, 

Commander-in-Chief Elect. 



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as I receive it from this ideal Commander (turning to Comrade Alger), as he 
received it from those who preceded him, the fair escutcheon of the Grand 
Army. God grant that I may never forget what is due to every man, even 
the humblest, of that great army which preserved our country one-quarter 
of a century ago, and which through this glorious organization of ours has 
been laying deep the foundations of future security for Liberty. 
Perhaps it may not be improper for me to announce that I feel prepared to 
say that my business now will be of such a character as to keep me at the 
National Capitol, where so many of you I hope may often come, or at the 
centres of the country, and thus keep up the touch of elbow with all of you 
and all the comrades of the Grand Army. 

" And ma)' I not say that I sincerely hope that it will not be simply 
the touch of elbows, but the touch of hearts between us all? Of course, 
comrades, I cannot expect to emulate the example which this, your com- 
mander, has set ; because you know that there is and can be but one Com- 
rade Alger. But, comrades, I feel that I can safely say this to you : that 
after more than twenty years in the ranks, and within the different grades 
of office of the Grand Army, I do feel as if I knew something about our 
glorious organization ; ami I say to you that I purpose to know everything 
that it is possible to know about the Grand Arm)' in every Department in 
the land ; and wherever the Grand Army demands my presence, nothing 
will stand between me and it, which I regard my first and greatest duty. 

" Now, comrades, it is not necessary for me to say what you all know, 
and that is, that the Grand Army of the Republic is founded upon a rock, 
and that God blesses it, and that the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. 
I speak with deep feelings of gratitude in my heart for the greatest honor 
you could have conferred upon me or could confer upon any living man." 

Next in order was the selection of a candidate for Senior Vice-Com- 
mander-in-Chief ; and it being conceded that the office, out of courtesy, 
belonged to Massachusetts, the matter was left to the delegates from that 
state. After a lengthy conference, Comrade J. G. B. Adams, on behalf of 
the delegation, presented the name of Richard F. Tobin, and said that he was 



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the unanimous choice. The Encampment thereupon instructed the Adjutant- 
General to cast one vote for Comrade Tobin, who accepted the position in 
the following speech: — 

Remarks of Comrade Tobin. 

"Commander-in-Chief, and Comrades of the Twenty-fourth National 
Encampment : I am deeply sensible of the obligations under which I rest, 
and for the high honor which my associates of the Department of Massachu- 
setts have today conferred upon me. I thank them most sincerely for their 
kindly expression of confidence ; and I thank you, comrades of the Encamp- 
ment, for the manner in which that expression has been received. I stand 
here today as a representative of that arm of the service which co-operated 
with you whenever and wherever there was water enough to float a gun-boat. 
I stand here as a representative of that arm of the service whose brilliant 
achievements have been rarely equalled and never excelled by the navy of 
any other nation in the world. I will not attempt to impose further upon 
your time other than to say that, so far as in me lies, I will exert every 
effort and every influence to second the efforts of him whom you have 
today made your Commander-in-Chief, alwavs having in mind the Grand 
Army of the Republic, with the aim in view that it shall ever be upward 
and onward. I hope that when the next year will have closed that I, 
together with my associates in official position, may be able to turn over to 
the next Encampment an organization so blessed with prosperity, so filled 
with enthusiasm as you (to Comrade Alger), Commander-in-Chief, have the 
pleasure of tinning over to your successor today. Comrades, from the 
inmost depths of my heart, I thank you." 

In the meantime, the Encampment had proceeded to select a Junior 
Vice-Commander; and California, first on the list, put forward the claims of 
Comrade Alonzo Williams, a professor in Brown University at Providence. 
Ohio and Indiana favored the selection of Comrade David R. Austin of Ohio; 
but as nearly every other state desired the election of Comrade Geo. W. 
Creamer of Baltimore, the names of Comrades Williams and Austin were 
withdrawn, and Comrade Creamer was elected by unanimous vote. 



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The Next Encampment at Detroit. 

Comrade Warner Miller of New York, speaking for that Department, 
moved that the next Encampment be held at Detroit. The motion was 
seconded by representatives from the Departments of Illinois and Ohio, 
and was unanimously adopted. Commander-in-Chief Alger expressed thanks 
at the action of the Encampment and assured the delegates that they would 
receive a warm welcome, although it would be a hard task to equal the 
reception they had received in Boston. 

The Encampment then adjourned until ten a.m. Thursday. 



THURSDAY^ PROCEEDINGS. 

The Grand Army Encampment was not called to order until shortly 
before eleven o'clock Thursday ; and nearly every delegate was present, except 
Gen. Sherman, who soon appeared. 

Report on Pensions. 



Past Commander-in-Chief George S. Merrill presented the following 
report of the pension committee : — 

" To the National Encampment of the G. A. R. : The committee on 
pensions appointed under resolution of the National Encampment herewith 
presents its ninth annual report : 

" In pursuance of the instructions of the last National Encampment, 
your committee proposed for presentation to Congress two bills : 

"i. The disability bill so many times endorsed by this body, providing 
pensions for all widows of veterans without regard to the origin of the 
disease from which the death occurred ; an increase for minor children ; a 
pension for dependent parents from date of dependence, whether existing 
before or arising since the war; and a pension for all veterans who are now 
or may hereafter become so disabled as to prevent the earning of a livelihood. 

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" 2. A per-diem service pension of a rate per month equal to one cent 
for each day's service, with an $8.00 minimum limitation ; this to be an 
absolute pension for service, and, therefore, in addition to any disability 
pension. 

" The committee has held six sessions during the year, and on four 
occasions presented to the committees and members of Congress these two 
bills as embodying the desire of the veterans of the Republic as to general 
pension legislation. No action has yet been taken in relation to the service 
pension bill. 

" Following the formal presentation of the two bills by your committee, 
the Senate speedily passed a disability bill, broad in many of its provisions, 
but containing a dependent clause. A different bill was pending in the 
House, having no such provision and authorizing pensions to all veterans 
who have reached the age of sixty years. Believing that more satisfactory 
results could be reached through committees of conference than in any other 
way, your committee urged that the House disagree to the Senate measure 
ami [iass its own bill, which was done. Neither of these was the bill of 
your committee ; but each included some features thereof. Committees of 
conference having been appointed, your committee requested a hearing, which 
was granted ; and subsequently a bill was agreed upon, passed by both 
houses, and on June 27, by the signature of the President, became a law. 
This bill provides a pension of SS.00 per month for all widows of veterans, 
without requiring proof that the death of the soldier or sailor was occasioned 
bv reason of anv disability incurred during the service ; a pension of $12.00 
a month for each dependent father or mother from date of dependence, 
instead of a pension, as under the former law, in case of parents, only when 
dependence existed at time of death of the son ; a pension of g6.CO to 
Si 2.00 per month for all veterans now or hereafter so disabled as to be 
unable to earn a living by manual labor, without proof to connect such 
disability with service. 

"This law, while not in the precise form of the bill presented by 
your committee, preserves the most important features thereof. So far as 
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dependence. For this your committee has from the beginning of the 
discussion earnestly contended, and no disability bill containing a dependent 
clause as applicable to the veterans has ever had our indorsement. 

" The new law enables all pensioners now receiving less than $6.00 to 
avail themselves of the minimum provisions thus established, increasing all 
lesser pensions to $6.00 and wiping out the multitudinous smaller grades 
with which the pension rolls have been disfigured. 

" While not just what we asked, it is the most liberal pension measure 
ever passed by any legislative body in the world, and will place upon the 
rolls all of the survivors of the war whose conditions of health are not 
practically perfect. 

" The committee makes grateful acknowledgment of the earnest and 
sympathizing efforts, in the work of liberalizing the pension laws, of Hon. 
C. K. Davis of Minnesota, chairman of the Senate committee on pensions ; 
also of the untiring, intelligent and successful work of Hon. E. N. Morrill 
of Kansas, chairman of the House committee on invalid pensions, to whom 
the veterans owe an unmeasured debt of gratitude. 

" The report of one year ago presented the principal pension measures 
which have become a law through the advocacy of this committee since its 
organization ; and the Grand Army of the Republic is now to be congratu- 
lated that the record of the pension work the organization has so vigorously 
pressed has become so nearly complete through the enactment of the disa- 
bility bill. Not all that we have desired, not all for which we have striven, 
has been accomplished during the existence of this committee ; but there has, 
at least, been an honest and earnest effort to be of service to the veterans 
of the Republic. The work of the committee is necessarily exacting, and the 
chairman, after nine years' service, and Comrades Kountz, Burst and Fair- 
child, members for successive terms, feel that the right to retire has been 
fairly earned, and will positively decline a reappointment. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Pension 



George S. Merrill,' 

John S. Kountz, 

John W. Burst, " . 

J Committee. 

Richard W. Blue, 

Lucius Fairchild, 



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The report was accepted and adopted, and on motion of Past Com- 
mander-in-Chief Beath, the Encampment, by a unanimous rising vote, expressed 
its thanks for the valuable work of the committee. 

*A Present to Past Commander-in-Chief Warner. 

At this point, Commander-in-Chief Alger said that he intended to make 
a change in the programme, which he felt would be acceptable to all. He 
then requested Comrade Sherman to come to the platform, and as the 
General walked up the aisle there was a storm of applause. Comrade- 
Warner was then asked to come to the platform, and he received a cordial 
greeting. Past Commander-in-Chief Devens was also called, and was given 
a soldier's welcome. 

After the three distinguished comrades had been seated, a beautiful 
candelabra clock and set was uncovered, and Gen. Sherman in a feeling 
speech presented them to Comrade Warner, whose response was eloquent. 

F'ollowing is Gen. Sherman's speech : — 

" Comrades of the (hand Army of the Republic: It is made my pleasant 
office this morning, as your agent, to present to your former Commander- 
in-Chief a testimonial of your love and affection. That alone would be a 
sufficient reward to an}- honorable man ; but we are in the habit of clustering 
it around a sword, or sash, or some token of affection. In this case it has 
assumed the form, I am told, — I have not seen it, — of a pair of candelabra 
and clock, so that our Comrade Warner may now measure time and have a 
taper burning, — emblematic of liberty since the beginning of time. (Applause.) 

"The office is a very simple one; and, comrades, I shall therefore not 
tire you with words, but proceed to unmask the battery and let Warner 
look at these tokens of affection. (Gen. Sherman then removed the cover- 
ings from the clock and candelabra. - ) It is especially pleasant for me to 
execute this office, because we have been associated ever since I joined your 
fraternity. I did not belong to the Grand Army of the Republic when in 
active command of the army. I thought it was not right for me to do it ; 

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but the very moment I retired from active life I notified the Post, or rather 
Department of the state of Missouri, in which I then lived, that I desired 
to join a Post (applause) and to remain with it as long as enough members 
remain to carry me to my grave. Up to that time, although I had seen 
Comrade Warner, I did not know him. I did not appreciate the man ; but 
lie came from Kansas City to St. Louis, and without one word or note of 
preparation, or even the little manual which you usually carry in your hand 
to prompt your memory, he recited the whole, clearly and distinctly ; and I 
took the oath. I think I have adhered to it. Now, Comrade Warner, with 
loving remembrance of those early days, and in confirmation of the act of 
this august and most honorable body, I convey from them to you these 
beautiful articles, to be carried to your home, to embellish it and give 
gladness not only to your good wife, but to those children toward whom 
you turn to carry your memory down to future ages." (Great applause and 
three cheers for Comrade Warner.) 

" Commander-in-Chief ] Comrade Sherman and Comrades of the Encamp- 
ment : If today I were called upon to receive this mark of your esteem and 
confidence, or any patent of nobility that could be conferred upon me by 
any royal family, I would be recreant to my feelings if I did not unhesitat- 
ingly select your approbation and your words. (Applause.) And if I had 
my choice of all the men living to perform this office, I would not go to 
the crowned heads of Europe, but I would select the man who is enshrined 
in the hearts of the American people, our beloved comrade, Gen. Sherman. 
I am proud, comrades, that it was my good fortune to have been Depart- 
ment Commander of the then little Department of Missouri, and it was 
my honor to muster Comrade Sherman into the ranks of the Grand Army 
of the Republic and as the first commander of Ransom Post of the city of 
St. Louis. The greatest poet of the ages has said: — 

'■■The friends thou hast and their adoption tried — 
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.' 

"Comrades, I feel that I may grapple to each of you, all that is dearer 
and tenderer, by ties that are more enduring than the ties of steel. I am 

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bound to each of you by the ties of comradeship, by memories of dangers 
past and of victories won, by memories of our dead, and by that sacred 
duty to our comrades living. (Applause.) Words fail me to express my 
thoughts. I cannot do it, any more than the colors of the rainbow can be 
transferred to the canvas. There are many things, comrades, I would say; 
but 1 feel that it is all in the simple words, if I should take each of you 
by the hand, and look you in the eye, and from the bottom of my heart 
say, 'God bless you.' I shall cherish this token of your esteem, beautiful 
and elegant as it is ; but f see around it, comrades, a halo of glory — I see 
around it something that I can transmit to my children, and say that an 
organization composed of over four hundred thousand of the survivors of 
the men that saved the country had enough regard and esteem for me to 
present this as a token of their affection. Time it will measure; and with 
every tick of the clock, and with every ray of the candle, comrades, I shall 
think of you ; and in the great loom of time in which the warp and woof of 
every life is woven, in that small space I may occupy, the brightest space in 
that warp will be the grateful remembrance of the many acts of kindness and 
esteem that I have received at your hands. In the future, as in the past, 
I here pledge myself that whatever influence, whatever energy and ability 
I may possess, shall be given in behalf of my comrades. I shall continue in 
that line as long as God gives me light to see the line of duty ; and when- 
ever any party or any church comes between me and my comrades, I shall 
touch elbow with the old comrade, broken and destitute though he may be. 

" Comrade Sherman, permit me again to thank you for this office. I 
have boys ; and as every boy in the country reveres your name, so mine 
revere it. Your name may not be engraved in letters on this clock; but it 
will shine forever in our memories, and whenever we read it we shall read 
the name of Comrade William Tecumseh Sherman, and the names of all the 
comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic. Comrades, God bless you. 
I thank you." 

The committee on rules and regulations reported adversely on a resolu- 
tion to restore the old ritual, but suggested the appointment of a committee 
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By nearly a unanimous vote, the Encampment substituted a minority 
report to restore the old ritual. 

Mrs. Knowles, the president, and a delegation from the Massachusetts 
Woman's Relief Corps were admitted, and Mrs. Knowles made an excellent 
speech, in which she gave an account of the work of the organization. The 
Woman's Relief Corps had a membership of 102,522, and §94,335.04 in 
the treasury. In its seven years of existence it had expended for relief 
$248,929.89, and had turned over to Posts $126,168.57, making a total of 
$375,098.40. 

As the delegation left the hall, the Encampment rose and cheered. 

The most interesting discussion came on the report of the committee 
on resolutions, against adopting a resolution offered by the Department of 
Massachusetts to so amend the rules and regulations as to deprive Past 
Department Commanders of the right to seats in the National Encampment. 
Comrade Keifer of Ohio presented the views of the majority, and was sup- 
ported by Past Commander-in-Chief Wagner, Comrade Hall of Maine and 
others, who made earnest speeches against the measure. The minority had 
as its representative Comrade Weymouth of Massachusetts. By a unanimous 
vote, the report of the majority was sustained. 

Other Matters. 



Comrade Warner Miller reported a resolution which met the hearty 
approval of the Encampment, that a suitable testimonial be procured for 
the Commander-in-Chief in recognition of his valuable services. 

A communication was received from the wife of Gen. H. T. Hays of 
the Confederate army, offering to return the flag of some Union regiment, 
probably from Pennsylvania or Ohio, which was captured by the Eighth 
Louisiana at Gettysburg. The thanks of the Encampment were extended 
to Mrs. Hays for her kind offer. 

A resolution was passed thanking Congress for the passage of pen- 
sion laws, and to the President for his prompt approval of the disability 
pension bill. 



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A resolution was adopted asking' Congress to pass an act to prohibit 
the display of Confederate flags on public occasions. 

A resolution that the Encampment favor the making of Ford's Theatre 
in Washington a National Museum for war mementoes, was adopted. 

A resolution was adopted favoring the passage of a law exempting 
veterans from examination in classified civil service. 

A petition from William M. Collins, for restoration as Past Department 
Commander of Kentucky, caused considerable discussion, and was referred to 
the new Council of Administration, with full powers. 



Service Pensions. 



On the subject of service pensions, a majority of the committee on 
resolutions submitted the following: — 



Believing that the Grand Army of the Republic is, and of right ought 
to be, entitled to speak for and represent that host of patriots that in the 
hour of the Nation's need came to its rescue, from 1S61 to 1865; and 
believing that every pension granted ought to be a badge of honor ; and 
believing that any pension that may be granted on the ground of service, 
in order to be an honor to the man who receives and the Nation that grants, 
must be the spontaneous, voluntary offering of a grateful people, and not 
procured by the eager efforts of a combination or organization banded 
together to urge or demand recompense for services rendered, the Grand 
Army of the Republic, in National Encampment assembled, does now 

Resolve, That while we will carefully watch and diligently urge that all proper provisions 
shall be made and continued for our wounded, disabled and helpless comrades, it is not con- 
sistent with the dignity of this organization, or its high and patriotic aims, to take part in 
asking for legislation looking to the granting of a pension by which every member of this 
organization shall be placed upon the pension roll tor service merely. 

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A minority of the committee, through Gov. Hovey of Indiana, presented 
the following : — 

Resolved, That while we are thankful for the aid given to our helpless comrades and 
their widows by the present Congress, in the passage of what is called the disability pension 
bill, they have failed to comply with the request of the Grand Army of the Republic at the 
Twenty-second Xational Encampment at Columbus, Ohio, and re-affirmed at the Twenty- 
third National Encampment at Milwaukee, and also have failed to comply with the resolutions 
of Grand Army Posts and petitions, representing thousands of veterans in every loyal state 
in the Union, asking for the passage of a service pension bill; and we therefore re-affirm 
and endorse the resolutions passed at the Xational Encampments at Columbus and Milwaukee, 
and the petitions of Posts asking for the passage of a service pension bill. 

Iii behalf of the minority report, the speakers were Comrades Gibson of 
Ohio, Hanbach of Kansas, Starmont of Indiana, Clark of Illinois and Blue 
of Kansas. 

For the majority, Comrades Ketchum of Illinois, Fairchild of Wisconsin, 
Rea of Minnesota and Burdette of Washington, spoke. 

The minority report was substituted by a vote of 174 to 160. 



Council of Administration. 

Alabama, C. D. Reamer ; Arizona, W. J. Murphy ; Arkansas, Henry C. 
Colwell ; California, Magnus Tait ; Colorado and Wyoming, J. B. Cooke ; 
Connecticut, Nathan Esterbrook, Jr.; North Dakota, John D. Black; South 
Dakota, C. S. Blodgett ; Delaware, Richard McClelland ; Florida, Thomas S. 
Wilmarth ; Georgia, Thomas F. Gleason ; Illinois, II. S. Dietrich ; Indiana, 
W. H. Armstrong ; Iowa, L. B. Raymond ; Idaho, George L. Shoup ; Kentucky, 
Albert Scott ; Louisiana and Mississippi, C. H. Shute ; Maine, Thomas J. 
Libbey ; Massachusetts, J. Payson Bradley ; Maryland, Frank Nolen ; Minne- 
sota, J. H. Mullen; Michigan, F. D. Newberry; Missouri, James R. Milner ; 
Montana, Geo. W. Shaw ; Nebraska, Joseph D. Miles ; New Hampshire, 
Reuben T. Leavitt ; New Jersey, Charles F. Kirker ; New Mexico, J. H. 
Purdy ; New York, R. F. Knapp ; Ohio, R. H. Cochran ; Oregon, E. W. 

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Allen ; Pennsylvania, William McClelland ; Potomac, Geo. 1-1. French ; Rhode 
Island, Henry C. Luther; Tennessee, \V. \Y. French; Texas, J. M. Steere; 
Utah, F. B. Addleman ; Vermont, F. J. Ranslow; Virginia, James E. Fuller; 
Washington and Alaska, George H. Boardman ; West Virginia, Charles E. 
Anderson ; Wisconsin, O. W. Carlson ; Kansas, O. H. Coulter. 

Thanks for Courtesies. 
On motion of Comrade Palmer of New York it was 

Resolved, That the thanks of this Encampment be. and are, hereby tendered to the 
commonwealth of Massachusetts, to our comrades of the Department of Massachusetts, to the 
municipal government and to the citizens of Boston as a body, for the cordiality of our 
reception, the grand provisions made for our entertainment while here, and the open hands 
and flowing hearts with which they have united to fill the cup of our enjoyment. 

The resolution was unanimously adopted, with three cheers for Boston 
and three cheers for Massachusetts. 



Comrade B. F. Stephenson of Cvnthiana, Ky.. was elected Surgeon-in- 
Chief, and Comrade Myron W. Reed of Denver, Colo., Chaplain-in-Cnief. 

The Commander-in-Chief-elect, Senior and Junior Vice-Commanders were 
installed by Past Commander-in-Chief Charles Devens. Commander-in-Chief 
Veazey named as his Adjutant-General, Comrade Joseph H. Goulding of 
Rutland, Vt., and Comrade John Taylor of Philadelphia, Quartermaster-General. 

At eight o'clock the Encampment was at an end. 




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<Et$W @nnuae Contention TD. (JL C. 




HILE the delegates of the Grand Army of the Republic 
were assembled in Encampment at Music Hall, Wednes- 
day morning, the Woman's Relief Corps was in session 
in 'Fremont Temple. The noble work accomplished by 
the members of that organization, both individually and 
collectively, has been so identified with that of the 
Grand Army of the Republic that its patriotic deeds 
deserve a lasting record upon the historic page. The 
object of the gathering was to hold the Eighth Annual 
Convention of that organization. The hall was gay 
with bunting and decorations symbolical of the Order. 
On the platform were seated Mrs. E. Florence Barker, the first president, 
Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood, Mrs. Sarah E. Fuller, Mrs. Elizabeth D'A. Kinne, 
Mrs. E. L. Hampton, Mrs. L. A. Turner and Mrs. Emma B. Lowd. Down 
the centre of the hall extended a line of white satin and gold banners, 
marking the places assigned for delegates from the various states. Occupy- 
ing seats in the press gallery were several members of the National Press 
Association of Washington : President, Mrs. M. D. Lincoln (Bessie Beach) ; 
Vice-President, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood ; Secretary pro tan, Miss Georgie 
Snow; Treasurer, Mrs. Hannah B. Sperry; Vice-President for Massachusetts, 
Mrs. Kate Tannatt Woods ; Mrs. Voorliss (Dora Dartmon) ; Mrs. Lucy A. 
Leggett, Detroit Tribune ; Mrs. Emily L. Sherwood, Washington Sunday 
Herald, Above the table where they sat was a beautiful black satin banner, 
lettered in gold, "The Woman's National Press Association." 

Early in the session it was announced that Secretary Rusk of the 
United States Department of Agriculture was in the corridor, and the 



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President ordered an escort to usher him in. He was enthusiastically re- 
ceived and made a brief address. Speeches were afterward made by Past 
Department President Mrs. Belle T. Bagley of Ohio, Mrs. Mary A. Logan, 
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore and others. Mrs. Gen. Alger was called upon, 
but declined to speak. 

National President Mrs. Wittenmyer called the Convention to order 
and delivered the annual address. 



Address of President Wittenmyer. 



She said : " Today our membership reaches nearly a hundred thousand ; 
our charity work during this one year is over S 100,000, and we have in the 
treasuries of the local Corps through the land a reserve fund on hand of 
over Si 53,000; and the name of the Woman's Relief Corps has become a 
precious household word throughout the republic. 

"There has been a spirit of earnestness and enthusiasm throughout our 
entire Order this year. But it has bv no means been equal to the demands 
made upon us, or the wonderful opportunities all around us. Thousands of 
heroes have needed help this year who have never called for aid before. 
We have done what we could for their comfort ; but if our numbers had 
been doubled, every needy veteran in the land could have been reached and 
properly cared for. There are thousands of loyal women all about us, who 
carelessly look on and do not realize that there has come to them the one 
grand chance in all the ages for them to minister to the heroes who saved 
their country from utter destruction. 

" During the year the following permanent Departments have been 
organized : Texas, North Dakota and the Potomac. A great deal of work 
has been done in West Virginia, and the Corps are ready to come in as a 
Department ; but it was deemed best to allow them to further extend their 
work, and to hold their convention for organization in connection with the 
next Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. So the completion 
of that work has been left to my successor in office. 



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National President W. R. C, 1890. 



&i$® &nnuaf Contention T37. (R C. 



"The preparatory work in Texas and West Virginia was accomplished 
under great difficulties by Sarah A. C. Plummer, my energetic and able 
Instituting and Installing Officer. 

"Josephine Folsom was appointed Provisional President of North Dakota, 
and soon brought it in as a strong, vigorous, permanent Department. 

"I had the honor of organizing the Department of the Potomac, with 
seven Corps, not including the Potomac Corps, which stands, as heretofore, 
directly auxiliary to the National. 

" Early in my administration I detached Texas from New Mexico, con- 
tinuing Maggie Monroe Rudisille, Provisional President of New Mexico. 
Tennessee still remains a Provisional Department, with Bianca R. Muller as 
Provisional President, in the place of Helen M. Nixon, resigned. 

" At the request of the officers of the Department of Washington, I 
attached Alaska to that Department ; and already there has been an advance 
into that distant region. Various efforts having been made to extend the 
work into Montana, without success, I have recently attached Montana to 
North Dakota, believing that the earnest workers in that Department would 
be able to enlist the women of Montana, to whom they are so closely linked 
by social ties and commercial highways. 

" I have not deemed it best to organize the detached Corps of Virginia 
into a Department ; but the School of Instruction ordered by the National 
Convention was held at Norfolk, Va., by Sarah E. Fuller, Past National 
President. After much preparatory work, a good attendance was secured, 
and every part of the work was fully exemplified. Mrs. Fuller also inspected 
and instructed the Corps in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. I think 
the fact has been clearly established that the colored Corps auxiliary to local 
Posts, and having relations directly with National Headquarters, are doing 
good work. 

" A vast amount of hard work has been done during the year, to secure 
the passage of an Army Nurses Pension Bill ; but, unfortunately, there was a 
division of sentiment among the friends of the measure as to the amount 
demanded, which resulted in the preparation of a special bill asking pensions 



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for the army nurses whom the Woman's Relief Corps have been aiding, 
which bill is now on the calendar and may vet pass. 

" With the consent of my council, after a thorough examination of the 
property near Madison, Ohio, offered to the Woman's Relief Corps for a 
National Home, I accepted the gift, on condition that the grounds be 
increased to ten acres and that the Seminary building be put in complete 
repair. This was agreed to by the generous citizens of Madison, Geneva 
and the surrounding country, and the agreement has been kept in every 
particular. The two houses stand complete without out cent of debt. The 
citizens of Madison and Geneva have given with lavish generosity, and 
toiled with unselfish zeal to fit up this Home for our use ; and it is a mag- 
nificent present from a patriotic whole-souled community to the Woman's 
Relief Corps for a sacred purpose. The property was legally transferred to 
the Woman's Relief Corps on the 17th of July, 1890. 

"I had the honor of visiting seventeen Department Conventions, and 
had the privilege of presenting our work in the business meeting (if every 
Encampment but one. I was accorded a most enthusiastic hearing, and our 
plans and work received the most heart)- and emphatic endorsement. 

" No National President has ever had a more competent and willing- 
hearted corps of officers and aids than have served with me this year. I 
desire to thank all fur their able work, and all members of the Order, 
who have, without exception, treated me with tender regard ami unfailing 
kindness. 

•■ ' And onlv ask for gracious words, 
Servant of all — well done.'" 



Just previous to the adjournment of the morning session, Past Com- 
mander-in-Chief Paul Wan Der Yoort of Nebraska was ushered to the 
platform and introduced as the one above all others who had been instru- 
mental in the organization and success of the Woman's Relief Corps. He 
made a pleasing address in response. 



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Report of the Rational Secretary. 

The report of the National Secretary stated that for the year ending 
June 30, 1889, there was a total of twenty-six Departments, two Provisional 
Departments and twenty-seven Detached Corps ; a total of 1,937 Corps, with 
a membership of 73,055. There was an increase during the year 1890 
of eighty-five Corps and 4,724 members, making a net total for the year 
ending June 30 of 2,022 Corps and 77,779 members. No supplementary 
reports were received, and there was, in consequence, a large loss both in 
the Corps and the membership, 238 Corps failing to report, causing a loss 
of 5,975 delinquent reports. The Department of Texas was organized March 
5, and the Department of North Dakota April 2^. Charters were issued to 
four detached Corps — two in the District of Columbia, and two in Virginia. 

The financial statistics were as follows : - 



General fund on hand 
Relief fund on hand 
Total . 



Amount expended in relief during the year 
Amount turned over to Posts during the year . 
Total 



Amount expended by National Pension and Relief Committee 
Amount expended at National Headquarters .... 
Amount expended, Wells fund . . . . ■ 

Amount expended for memorial services of 

Total amount expended ...... 



$85,407 


34 






59.463 


20 










$i 4+ ,S 7 o 


54 


$62,226 


12 






26 .065 


54 










$88,291 


66 






3.775 


5° 






S9 


65 






4'4 75 






9,958 


92 




$102,530 


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^Report of the V^ational Treasurer. 



Armilla A. Cheney, National Treasurer, in account with Woman's Relief Corps. 

Dr. 

Cash on hand as per last report, general fund .... $10,604 53 

Received for $er cafiita tax during the year ..... 5.588 85 

Received from sale of supplies during the year .... 18,546 29 

Received from Mrs. Charity Rusk-Craig, balance cash on hand at 

National Headquarters ........ 10S 10 

Received for interest on deposits at New England National Bank, Boston, 12 53 

Received for interest on deposits at Mechanics Bank. Detroit . . 210 05 

Total receipts .......... $35,071 25 

Cr. 

By expenditures ........... $22,399 9° 

By one-half per capita tax ($5,58885) for year ending June 30, 1890, 

transferred to pension and relief fund ..... J >794 4- 

Total expenditures ......... S2 ^ . 1 ■ 14 58 



Balance general fund to new account ........ $9,876 87 

Balance pension and relief fund ....... 316 30 

Balance headquarters relief fund ......... 22 9^ 

Balance headquarters incidental fund ... ..... 242 cs 

Balance memorial building fund .......... i-9M 9 1 

Balance Jensie Wells fund ......... . 950 7*^ 

Total cash in all funds. June 30. 1890 ....... $13-33' S6 



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AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The reports of National Inspector Mrs. Clara E. Nichols, submitted at 
the afternoon session, showed that the various state Departments were in a 
flourishing condition. 

The report of Mrs. Sarah A. C. Plummer, the National Instituting and 
Installing Officer, was instructive and encouraging. 

Mrs. M. E. Knowles, Department President of Massachusetts, an- 
nounced that a message had been received from the National Encampment 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, that Comrade W. G. Veazey had been 
elected Commander-in-Chief. This announcement was received with enthu- 
siastic applause. 

Mrs. Maggie E. Hutchings, President of Needham Corps of Lawrence, 
Mass., presented two beautiful bouquets, one to the National President, Mrs. 
Wittenmyer, and one to Mrs. Knowles, President of the Department of 
Massachusetts. 

Miss Clara Barton received an ovation. She referred to meeting veterans 
whose limbs she had helped save during the war, and expressed her deep 
interest in the work of this Order. 

An official delegation from the National Encampment was escorted to 
the platform, consisting of Comrades Linehan, New Hampshire ; Hooker, 
Vermont ; Smedberg, California ; and Comrades Cole and Young of Missouri. 

The chairman stated that they came by vote of the National Encamp- 
ment, and to extend fraternal greetings to the Woman's Relief Corps. He 
referred to their good work of the past seven years, and said the Woman's 
Relief Corps had the good wishes of a great majority of the comrades. 

The other members of the committee gave their hearty indorsement of 
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The National President stated that 8375,000 had been expended by the 
National organization of the past seven years, and that a fund of $160,000 
remained in the treasury oi the Corps. 

'The National Encampment having voted to meet next year in Detroit, 
Mich., Mrs. Flagg, Department President of that state, Mrs. Hamilton of 
Detroit, Past National President, Mrs. Plummer of Lansing, National Insti- 
tuting and Installing Officer, and Mrs. Sterling of Michigan, extended cordial 
invitations to the National Convention, assuring them of their heartiest 
reception. 

A committee was appointed to return the greetings of the Grand Army, 
viz. : Mrs. Mary E. Knovvles, Massachusetts ; Mrs. Cora Day Young, Ohio ; 
Mrs. Emma B. Manchester, Nebraska ; Mrs. Nancy \V. Moore, New Hamp- 
shire ; Elizabeth D'A. Kinne, California. 

The convention adjourned at six o'clock. 



SECOND "DAY'S WO RK. 

The second day's proceedings opened with the consideration of reports 
of committees. The work of the National Secretary and Treasurer was 
commended by the committee having the work in charge. 

The organization known as the Union Prisoners of War National 
Memorial Association was heartily endorsed, following which came the 
election of officers. This was the result: — 

President, Mrs. Mary S. McHenry of Denison, Iowa ; Senior Vice- 
President, Mrs. Lizabeth A. Turner of Boston, Mass. ; Junior Vice-Presi- 
dent, Mrs. Bessie E. Young of Missouri ; Treasurer, Mrs. Armilla A. 
Cheney of Detroit, Mich. ; Chaplain, Mrs. Emily V. Littlefield of Bangor, 
Maine. 



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A board of directors for the Woman's Relief Corps National Home was 
elected, as follows : Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer of Pennsylvania, for five years ; 
Mrs. Pluma L. Cowles of Ohio, for four years ; Mrs. Emma B. Lowd of 
Massachusetts, for three years ; Mrs. Sarah C. Mink of New York, for two 
years ; Mrs. M. B. Moulton of New Hampshire, for one year. 

The following were elected as the National Executive Board : Mrs. 
Harriet S. Durfee of Rockville, Conn. ; Mrs. Emma K. McCammon of 
Carthage, Ohio ; Mrs. America Anderson of Denver, Colorado ; Mrs. Mary 
E. Wright of Baltimore, Md. ; Mrs. Melissa Caylor of Evansville, Ind. 

At the close of the Convention, resolutions of thanks were extended to 
the state of Massachusetts, the city of Boston and the several committees 
for the entertainments provided the organization, also to the Department of 
Massachusetts Woman's Relief Corps, the press and others, for courtesies. 
A resolution of thanks was also voted to the generous people of Madison 
and Geneva, Ohio, for the gift of the site of the National Woman's Relief 
Corps Home in that state. 

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HE second great event which took place in Mechanics 
Hall was the grand camp-fire held Wednesday even- 
ing, August 13. The spacious edifice was crowded 
with veterans and ladies, expectant, enthusiastic and 
ready to extend an ovation to those who were to 
address them. Invitations were extended to the 
National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic 
and the National Convention Woman's Relief Corps. 
Patriotic music was rendered by the Salem Cadet 
Band throughout the evening. 

When Commander George II. Innis of the Department of Massachusetts 
called for order, soon after eight o'clock, there was every prospect that the 
camp-fire would be an unusually interesting one. Around Comrade Innis sat 
a large number of ladies and gentlemen of prominence. Among them were 
the governor of Massachusetts, John O. A. Brackett, Mayor Hart, Lieutenant- 
Governor Haile, Hon. H. H. Sprague, Hon. W. E. Barrett, Adjt.-Gen. Dalton, 
and many other distinguished men. 

After a few brief introductory remarks by Comrade Innis, Governor 
Brackett was introduced, and spoke as follows: — 



Remarks, of Governor Brackett. 

"Mr. Commander, Soldiers and Gentlemen: Where else can a Grand 
Army camp-fire be more fittingly kindled than on the soil of Massachusetts? 
And when it is ignited and kept alive by the efforts, not only of her own 



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soldier sons, but of their comrades from all over this land of ours, the 
commonwealth would be derelict in her duty did she not send her Chief 
Magistrate here to represent her and to join with you in the service, although 
he may be able to contribute but a single fagot to the blaze or to do no 
more than to faintly fan the flame. Massachusetts has always endeavored 
to do her duty to her soldiers. She takes a just pride in the record they 
made in the terrible ordeal of war, of which the current week brings to our 
mind so many vivid reminders. Emulating the example of their ancestors, 
who were the earliest to take the field in the Revolutionary contest, they 
were the first to respond to the call of Lincoln for troops. And among 
them were the first whose lives were offered up in sacrifice for their country's 
cause. Not only at the beginning, but all through the four years that en- 
sued, the state was represented valiantly upon every battlefield of the great 
conflict. As Gov. Andrew once said : ' There has been no loyal army the 
shout of whose victory has not drowned the dying sigh of a son of Massa- 
chusetts. There has been no victory gained which her blood has not helped 
to win.' 

" These allusions are made in no vaunting spirit. They are not made 
to exalt one state at the expense of others. No state can monopolize the 
glory won by its sons. It is a part of the history, not of the state only, 
but of the Republic. Its radiance illumines no one section alone, but the 
whole country. It is a glory achieved by men who were not simply residents 
of the state, but who were American citizens; and in it all American citizens, 
as countrymen, have a right to share. The people of Massachusetts cherish 
the memorials of their defenders. You will find them scattered all over the 
commonwealth — in the soldier's monument, upon the village green, in the 
memorial hall, in the treasured mementoes of the loved and lost in every 
home upon which the war cast its shadow and brought its bereavement. 
You will find them at the State House in the torn and tattered battle-flags, 
mutilated by shot and stained by blood, but never disfigured by dishonor. 

" In accepting these, twenty-five years ago, our great War Governor 
said, ' They will be preserved and cherished, among all the vicissitudes of 
the future, as mementoes of brave men and noble actions.' That promise 



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lias been faithfully kept for a quarter of a century, as it will be kept through 
all the centuries that are to come. I have been gratified at seeing so many 
of our visitors at the State House today viewing these and the other trophies 
of the glorious past which are there preserved. I hope all of you are 
enjoying your visit here as much as we are enjoying your presence with us. 
I trust that you all come here with a good opinion of this dear old com- 
monwealth of ours, and that you will return to your homes with a higher 
opinion still and with a warmer affection for her and for all the sister states 
which unite to form our common country." 

Comrade Innis then called upon Comrade Charles O. Fellows, of the sub- 
committee on camp-fire, to take charge of the proceedings, and he announced 
a selection by the Mendelssohn Glee Club as next on the programme, after 
which Miss Jennie O'Neil Potter, dressed as a vivandiere, read " Sheridan's 
Ride." The Salem Cadet Band gave "A Day in Camp," portraying the life of 
a soldier from reveille in the morning to taps at night, but was interrupted by 
the entrance of Gen. Sherman under escort of Comrade George L. Goodale, 
Mr. Hoyt Sherman and Comrade William Warner. Gen. Sherman was 
cheered very heartily. Then the " Day in Camp " was continued. As it 
closed, Commander-in-Chief Alger ascended the steps to the platform, accom- 
panied by Comrade B. F, Butler, Congressmen McKinley and Boutelle, Police 
Commissioner Osborne and a number of ladies. After the applause had sub- 
sided, Mayor Hart was presented. The mayor said : — 

Remarks of (Mayor Hart. 

"Mr. Commander, Ladies and Gentlemen : A line has been recited here 
tonight which says, ' Under a Union Sky.' We are under a Union sky, and 
we know it in fact. And why? Because you men went to the front and you 
made it a Union sky. I begin to believe it more and more ; for today I 
had the pleasure of introducing the mayor of Galveston, Texas, to an audience 
like this ; and I asked the audience to give him three rousing cheers, because 
he had come a long way to Boston to see what we could do here at the 
North ; and the cheers were enough to lift the roof. We live under that 



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Union sky because of your efforts and the efforts of our friends here, Gen. 
Sherman, Comrade Butler and all the other good ones. We have a Union flag, 
and we have forty-four stars on that flag — soon to be; and no star shall 
ever be obliterated as long as you and I shall live — as long as you and I 
can do anything to save it. 

" Now, gentlemen, I did not come here to expect to speak for the city 
of Boston. We have asked you to come here. We have done what we 
could for you ; are you satisfied ? (Shouts of 'Yes ! ') Is there anything else 
that you want Boston to do ? If we have done all that you asked us to do, 
then just give three rousing cheers for Gen. Sherman." 

The cheers were given in true soldier fashion. Mrs. Ellen Carter Wright 
sang the "Star Spangled Banner," and then, amid tumultuous cheering, 
Commander-in-Chief Alger was presented by Comrade Fellows. 



I^emarhs of Comrade zAlger, 



"Mr. Chairman: If any one in this vast audience will tell me what I 
am going to do with all these magnificent offerings, these unwonted courte- 
sies, I will be much obliged. When we came to Boston, comrades, we were 
promised everything ; but we did not expect Boston would turn out en masse 
to deliver the goods. Now to you, people of Boston, who have promised 
so much and have given us more than you contracted to : in the name 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, in the name of the comrades who 
have come here, I thank you most sincerely. We have had a welcome 
here in Boston such as we never dreamed of. We have seen here poured 
out for us hospitality in unstinted quantities. Everybody has been subject 
to our orders. Every person has been asking, ' What more can we do for 
you?' and I have simply told them today that we are all full, and that we 
can't take any more. 

" Gen. Sherman sits here tonight as complacently as if he did not know 
that he was subject to my orders. The time was when he had his way. 



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He then wore four stars, and I didn't have any. Tonight I am in command; 
and I do not propose to do the work of my subordinate, great as he thinks 
he is, large as he appears, much as we love him. Take the others here. 
Here is Comrade Butler, who used to issue his orders. Along down the line 
are fellows who used to look at my captain's stripes and think the)- did 
not amount to much ; but I give them notice tonight that I will call them 
all out, and we will have every one talk. 

" Comrades and citizens of Massachusetts : No words of mine can ade- 
quately express the feelings of gratitude, the throbbings of love that we 
have for this great commonwealth. We love you not because you are taking 
care of us so. We love you because of all other states in this great Nation 
of ours you are doing more for the defenders of the flag today, anil have 
been doing more for the last twenty-five vears, than any other dozen states 
taken together. We have watched your record, and we know what you are 
doing. We know that you appreciate the services and the sacrifices made 
by your people whom you sent to the war. You have stood by them 
royally. You have poured out your money to them in unstinted quantities. 
You are the richer today for it, ami the men who saved this commonwealth 
and this country have the more gratitude to you for what you have done. 
I want to say to you, people of Massachusetts, that if other states would 
emulate your example, — if other states would do what you have done, — 
those great states would sleep better, would be richer, would have more 
patriotic spirit in their hearts, more warm, patriotic blood in their veins, 
than they have now. They are doing much for our old comrades — they are 
going to do more ; and we assure you that we appreciate all that is done in 
our behalf. 

" Comrades, when we leave this magnificent entertainment, so amply 
provided for us, let us go to our homes more and more grateful that we 
served the Union in the time of its danger, prouder than ever that we 
can wear the Grand Army badge. And let us say forever, that live as we 
may, in poverty or in affluence, we will hand down to our children, as I 
said last night here, I think, a heritage that no other generation can give 
to their children, of a membership in the Grand Army of the Republic: a 



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button that cannot be purchased with money — a button that is beyond 
price; an association, comrades, that is better than anything else on earth." 
Gen. Sherman was then introduced and received a thundering ovation. 
He spoke as follows : — 

Remarks of Gen. Sherman. 

" I have been to a great many camp-fires in my day ; but I must confess 
that tonight I am disappointed, because I expected to find a table with a 
tin cup and some coffee in it, and a pot of beans at all events, in Massa- 
chusetts, to make a camp-fire out of. But I see nothing but human beings 
here ; and I am not going to eat you up, so don't be afraid. The fact 
is, I have been reading the newspapers for the last two or three years, 
and I had become alarmed lest New England was being effaced from the 
earth, that there was no longer any people here. I thought there was 
not a single Puritan or Pilgrim in existence save those two magnificent 
steamers which run from Fall River to New York. But I guess there 
are a good many Puritans and Pilgrims ; and I have been amazed at 
their numbers, their intelligence, their comfort, their surplus with which 
they are feeding us, I suppose, for the purpose of devouring us at the 
proper time. 

" But, my friends, it certainly is a pleasure to us old army friends to 
come face to face with the people. We love to meet you, because we were 
aware in years gone by that we could feel the influence of a power behind 
us stronger than ourselves. We were merely the advance guard of the 
great purpose which dominated this continent. You were the power behind 
the throne, stronger than the throne itself. We realized it then ; we realize 
it now ; and we submit, as f do tonight — for I am a high private of this 
grand organization, and a judge, I am told, is my Commander-in-Chief. 
Now, there was a time when in soldier life we did not count a judge of much 
account ; but I will give that judge as much loyal fidelity, I will fight for 
him, and guard him, and sustain him in honor and affluence, as much as if 



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I had never been Commander-in-Chief of a great army in the field, leading 
it even from Atlanta to the sea. Our friend Alger is no longer Commander." 

Comrade Alger walked up to the General at this and said, laughingly, 
" I want you to understand that I am in command yet." (Great laughter.) 

Gen. Sherman : — 

" Well, it's got to be pretty quick, because I don't expect to obey your 
orders long ; but to Judge Veazey I shall certainly give my most unqualified 
and loyal support, as I will to all the authorities. And, my friends of 
Massachusetts, I will tell you it is not the man : it is the fact that we have 
in this land of liberty a principle which is our king, be he whom he may, 
as President, as Commander-in-Chief of the armies, the navies, governors of 
your states, speakers of your legislatures, everything. We have a principle 
which is our king, our God — which every man, every good citizen should 
obey, not because it is this man or another man, but because it is right. 
We must stand by the constituted authorities of the land. We must be 
firm in our footsteps, or else these mistrustful men will throw us off our 
balance, and we may be at ease again. 

" But now look aloft, my young friends, and my old friends, too, and 
see yonder Stars and Stripes. If Keyes should have become so enthused 
that he composed the song that you have just heard sung by that sweet lady 
voice tonight, seventy-five years ago, how much more should you in looking 
up and seeing yonder flag, the ' Star Spangled Banner,' waving above your 
heads tonight. Look at it, my friends, and feel how your heart thrills when 
you see that 'Star Spangled Banner,' still the same, not a star defaced, but 
added to — added to until we have forty-four stars now. I think that every 
one of you, whether you are from Massachusetts or from Oregon, will be 
the more true and faithful to the cause which we fought for twenty-five 
years ago, and which today is dorminant in this land. Fidelity to trust, 
loyalty and, above all, charity. May you possess these three great functions 
of the Grand Army of the Republic in their utmost degree, and carry and 
distribute them all over the earth's surface, and we will have, as Burns 
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A war song was given by the Glee Club, the old soldiers joining in 
the chorus at Comrade Alger's suggestion. Then, amid prolonged applause 
and cheers, Comrade Butler was presented. He said : — 



%'iihir/;s of Comrade "Butler. 



"Comrades : I think that you have had quite enough of praise, of 
gratitude and expressions of your gratitude to the city of Boston. I am 
one of the ungrateful ones, and I don't believe — and I am going to speak 
to you on that topic — that anybody ever has, or anybody ever will, pay 
what they justly owe us for our services. Boston and Massachusetts try 
as well as they can, and perhaps they paid their share of the debt ; but this 
country still owes us, and of that debt I shall speak. I hear that we are 
banded together. Well, we are.' We are the old organization of 1861 that 
came together to save the country; and we have never disbanded from that 
organization. And we have never made a new one; and we have directed 
— not well, because all men at first do not do things exactly as they ought to 
do ; but we have directed our efforts in favor of our disabled and dependent 
brothers, their wives and their children, and we have put our hands in our 
pockets and disbursed liberally, very liberally, to men more liberal, to keep 
them from want and the poorhouse, just as liberally as we put our hands 
in our pockets during the war to pay the war tax, whatever was paid, as 
fast as we got it. 

" Now, then, that was well for our hearts, well for the good of those 
we lavished it for, well for an example for all the world of what the 
American soldier can and will do. But now we are organized for another 
purpose — for the purpose of demanding justice of this country. I am tired 
of hearing about the bounty of the country to us. I will excuse the country 
for their giving the soldier a single dollar of bounty in the shape of pen- 
sions or otherwise if they will pay us what they owe us and what they took 
out of our pockets by a depreciated currency to put in the pockets of the 
bankers and the capitalists. I have nothing to say against the banker and 



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the capitalist ; they made as good a bargain as they could. That the}- had 
a right to do, and they took care to enforce that bargain. 

" We, many of us, — the private soldiers particularly, — made a very bad 
bargain pecuniarily. None of us ever thought about the pay, except the 
little pittance that we could send home to the wives ami children and 
sweethearts we left behind ; and we never went into the contract much for 
the pay, though some of the later of us, aye, got bounties ; but the old bald 
heads I see before' me enlisted before there were any bounties — enlisted 
because they wanted to serve the country and rescue her from death and 
destruction. Now, that has been a bad bargain. They complain and say, 
'Oh! we are robbing the treasury.' Not so, not so! All we ask of them, 
of this country, is to pay our contract for our pay just the same and in the 
same manner and with the same interest that they paid the banker, the 
broker and the capitalist at home and abroad. That will give us enough so 
that we won't ask any bounty for any soldier or soldier's widow. We will 
take care of them ourselves. 

" I have calculated this, Mr. Commander ; I know what it is, and the 
amount is so great that it is but a drop in the bucket when we talk about 
pensions. All this belongs to us. This is ours by law of right, of justice. 
And here we are holding this country, if we act together, in our right hand. 
We can make the politicians dance like peas on a hot shovel. We have 
the power ; but the trouble is we stick to old notions, old party names, old 
ideas. We bother about tariffs — a very good thing to bother about when 
you bother on the right side. We talk about force bills — a very good thing 
to have done when they are needed. We talk about building all manner of 
things for everybody in order to get rid of the surplus. Pay your debt. 
Pay your soldiers, and don't go back upon them. Pay what you honestly 
agreed to. The law now remains on the statute book that we were to be 
paid in gold. The country could not pay us then, and we did not grumble. 
We went on fighting. We loan the country still what we had offered to 
loan them first — our lives and our limbs; we kept on that loan, although 
we were paid, we knew, thirty-three, forty and forty-five per cent sometimes, 
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" Wc recognized when we got through the war that the country was 
bound down, was not prosperous at first — that she was poor and in debt ; 
and we stood back and let the banker have his. Everybody is paid that is 
willing to take his pay. Now we want our own. And let me tell you how 
I would like to see it given. Calculate the amount ; I don't expect the 
country to pay it all in one day or one hour. It will be a great deal better 
that they do not ; but pay once in three months an aliquot part of the share 
that would come to a man on a fair basis of calculation for his life, so that 
everybody shall have a support while he lives, however imprudent he may 
be, and the remainder to go over to his wife and children : and that will be 
an inheritance to leave them that we have earned — that belongs to us. And 
if God ever in his infinite mercy strikes this country for sin, it will be because 
that with overflowing gold in her coffers, with overflowing prosperity, with 
the power to pay all her soldiers their fair share, year by year, what she 
owes them, she refuses to do it. God in Heaven ought to send His light- 
ning bolts on this earth and this vicinity, if we do not do as we ought to do. 
"You see I am one of the ungrateful ones. I have explained to you 
why I do not feel grateful for anything that has been done. I never 
happened to ask a pension, because I could get along without it. But I 
have seen the poor soldier and the poor sailor come in rags and in sorrow 
and in hunger, when I knew that the country owed him enough to support 
him handsomely the rest of his life. I know the fact, I know the law. I 
never heard anybody dispute the law, and it is our fault if we do not enforce 
it. We enforced the power and the glory of the country before. It is hard 
to do it. We stood and shot together. If we had shot every which way, 
we should never have conquered the rebellion. If we got in all manner of 
quarrels which way we should shoot, we never should have won anything. 
Go home and ask your old gun,™ for you kept it, no doubt; if you haven't, 
ask your neighbor's : it is just as good,— ' Which way did I shoot ? ' Always 
shot the way that you thought it would do the most good. I don't care 
about politics. I am past politics. I am almost as far out of them as is un- 
friend, Gen. Sherman ; and that is a long way, sir. I have nothing to do 
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I can during my remaining years, which arc few, to see that justice is 
done to the Grand Army of the Republic. And it will be done. 

"The farmers out West got a little start of this state — had to act 
together, and they frightened every politician in the United States Senate. 
Could the farmers turn out in this procession as you did yesterday? No. 
Why don't they care for you ? Because you do not act together. Don't 
have any trouble on that subject. I heard one man, I thought, say, 'Oh, 
not in the South!' Yes, in the South. I speak advisedly. The South, in 
order to gain your votes on their side, have granted you four times more 
pensions since they have had the power, without a fight against them, than 
has the Republican party. Let the South see that you are the controlling 
power ; and all they want is to have their hand in the controlling power. 

" Every northern district you can control. Don't try to control it on the 
tariff. Ask, 'Will you vote to pay the veterans of the Grand Army of the 
Republic what the country owes them, in such amounts as the country can 
afford to pay from time to time, for their support, and for the support of 
their wives, widows and children after them ? ' Ask that. If the man give 
you his pledge that he will vote that, why, then, about the minor matters 
of politics, disperse as you please. We don't care anything about them. 
They do not affect our poor comrades. They do not affect our comrades' 
widows and children, any one of them. It is nothing ; but this is vital, 
this is just, this is lawful, this is our right ; and if we don't get it we have 
ourselves to blame." 

Congressman McKinley of Ohio was applauded very heartily when 
President Fellows presented him as the next speaker. He said: — 



Remarks of Congressman [McKinley. 



''Mr. President and Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic: I 
dislike very much to disagree with the distinguished gentleman who has 
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ment when he says that the Grand Army of the Republic, many of whom 
sit before me here tonight, had been engaged in a bad bargain. It is not 
true. No more honorable obligation was ever made, no more worthy con- 
tract was ever entered into by human kind, than that contract you made in 
1861 to save your flag and to preserve this Union to mankind. And there 
is not a veteran here before me — there is not a veteran throughout the 
length and breadth of this Nation — who would give up his relation to that 
great contract for the wealth of Boston or the money of the world. If 
there is such a one in this vast audience, let him speak out tonight, and 
speak out now. It was a good bargain : for it saved to mankind, now and 
.hereafter, the freest government upon the face of God's earth. 

"Gen. Butler cannot outdo me in desiring for the old soldiers of the 
Republic the most generous offerings from the Nation's treasury. I have 
stood in my place, as Gen. Butler has stood in his place, voting for the 
most liberal pensions to the soldiers of the Union army ; and I shall con- 
tinue to do it so long as I am honored with a seat in the House of 
Representatives. Mr. Commander, Boston is proud tonight ; Massachusetts 
is proud tonight. And well they may be : for they are entertaining in their 
capital city the representatives of the spirit and the purpose that preserved 
the American flag from dishonor and brought freedom and equality to all 
mankind within the jurisdiction of the United States. And I say to the 
people of Massachusetts that my comrades of the Grand Army of the 
Republic are proud to be within your great commonwealth tonight ; for we 
will never forget that to Massachusetts — to her spirit of freedom, to the 
spirit of old Faneuil Hall — we are indebted for that splendid manifestation 
from 1 86 1 to 1865, that gave freedom and free men. 

" Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic : I shall not detain you 
but a moment longer. It was my purpose not to speak at any of your 
meetings at this reunion ; but I want to say that I am glad to be with 
you and to be one of you ; for to the citizen soldiery of this Republic are we 
indebted for the matchless victories of the war. We will not forget Grant, 
who never paused to unbuckle his spurs from Harper's Ferry to Appo- 



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mattox Court House. Nor can we ever forget our gallant guest here tonight, 
Gen. Sherman. God bless his noble hand ! The slaves were all made free 
when touched by Sherman's hands. Nor, comrades, can we ever forget 
Sheridan, that gallant little Irishman who made Jubal Early waltz up and 
down the Shenandoah Valley. Nor can we forget Meade, or the matchless 
Hancock, who won brilliant laurels upon the field at Gettysburg. These 
names are safe — history will take care of them. But of that great vol- 
unteer army, the citizen soldiery of this country, too much cannot be said 
bv the present generation in their praise. They were the majestic power 
which stood behind the strategic commander ; and their intelligence and 
individual earnestness, guided by his genius, made the imperishable victories 
of the war ; and while the private soldier bore no insignia of rank upon 
the outside, his blue blouse bore a hero breast within. 

" But above all, comrades, we must not forget the ideas for which we 
fought. We have only, as an organization, to remember that which we won 
in war shall not be lost in peace. All we ask, all we have ever asked, is 
that the settlements of that war — grand settlements, made between Grant 
and Lee at Appomattox, and which were afterwards embodied in the Con- 
stitution of the United States — shall stand as the irretrievable judgment of 
history and the imperishable decree of a Nation of freemen. 

" ' From the war's dread, fiery ordeal 

No bitter hates we bring, 
No threat of wild revenges, 

No cruel taunts to fling; 
But we must ne'er prove faithless 

To the precious blood they shed; 
Our foes may be forgiven, 

But ne'er forget our dead. 
() boys who fell at Shiloli, 

At Richmond and Bull Run! 
The work your brave hands finished 

Shall never be undone. 
Sleep sweetly through the ages, 

O dear and gallant dust! 
The men — we men — who saw your victories 

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Comrade Butler arose, walked to the desk and said: — 

Comrade Butler Speaks Again. 

" I come here, comrades, to speak a word for another class of soldiers. 
We have great praise, clue praise, from the gentleman who last addressed us 
for the various regular generals of the army. He has forgotten that there 
was a volunteer general anywhere. He has got his mind so wrought up 
with West Point that he forgot Garfield, from his own state." [A voice: 
"And he forgot Butler, too!" "Oh! that I am forgotten is of no 
consequence." [A voice: "Hurrah for Butler."] [Another voice: "And 
John A. Logan."] "Oh, yes! John A. Logan — forgot him! And who is 
asking to forget him ? Who is asking to forget those and remember the 
others ? The volunteer soldiers who are before me ? No ! regular army 
men, not enough to cover up a mustard pot. How comes it that all the 
big victories won by the volunteers are forgotten ? — no, not forgotten ! 
Did Gen. Sherman free the slaves? He fought the battles of his country, 
and Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves before Sherman got to the sea, or 
started for the sea. I detract no laurel from Sherman's brow. I would 
not do it for my life. Again, in 1862, I myself put arms into the hands of 
the colored men, and they fought your battles ; and, in 1864, I put arms 
into the hands of 25,000 more. That made Appomatox possible; but 
I claim nothing for myself. I don't claim anything. I only claim one 
thing for myself as a general, and that is that I had no large butcher's 
bills of soldiers left dead on the field under my command to account for." 
[A voice: "New Orleans!"] "Oh, no! Nobody was hurt there but the 
other side, and therefore I am a small general. 

" What have I said ? Have I asked you to forget your contract ? You 
made no contract to save the Union ; you made a contract to do your duty. 
The contract I was referring to was a contract for the pay; and it was a 
skillful dodge on the part of the gentleman who answered me to put it in 
that way. He says he has been generous. I know he has. He has been 



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liberal in his votes. I know he has. That is what I complain of. I don't 
know any generosity. I don't want any liberality for the soldier; but I 
want simple justice — that we shall be paid for what is owed to us. I don't 
want to depend upon any man's good nature. That is all I ask. I 
have not accused Congress of anything but not attempting to do justice; 
and I asked you simply to remember your rights, and they will come by 
and by. My political drafts are always honored years after I draw them." 

The O ther Speakers. 

George E. Brooks of California read an original poem entitled " Sher- 
man's March." 

The chairman then presented Comrade William Warner of Kansas, Past 
Commander-in-Chief, who said, among other things: "We have heard a 
good deal this evening, and I trust we shall hear more of what this general 
did and what the other general did. Comrades, we are here tonight as 
one body of citizens. We are here representing the great rank and file of 
the men who placed the stars upon the military genius of the age, William 
Tecumseh Sherman. We are here as the men who carried the muskets ; 
we are here as the men who slept on the frozen ground; we are. here as 
the men who fed on salt pork and hard tack ; we are here as the men 
whom some tell us that a grateful government has more than compensated 
for the services that we rendered, for all the hardships that we endured, 
for all the wounds that we received. They make such debtors of the stay- 
at-homes. They compare the rations that you received (and, comrades, you 
know that the rations were always in a movable condition) with the rations 
paid to the soldiers of other countries, and testified that your pay was 
princely, that your fare was sumptuous ; yet, strange as it may appear, the 
rigors of a Canadian climate had more attraction for those people than the 
princely pay of a soldier or the bounteous table. They preferred to let 
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charged the duties of citizen soldiers of the Republic, let every battlefield 
of the Rebellion from Fort Donelson to Appomatox answer." 

The speaker, in concluding, warmly applauded the pension bill signed 
on the 27th of June, and disclaimed the imputation that the Grand Army 
of the Republic men were sources of danger to the Government as pension 
seekers. 

Comrade Daniel E. Sickles was the next speaker, and his address brought 
the speech-making to an end. He spoke in strong advocacy of liberal pen- 
sions, and concluded by paying an eloquent tribute to the Woman's Relief 
Corps. Singing by the Glee Club closed the exercises. 




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Thursday evening 1,500 Grand Army veterans as- 
sembled in Mechanics Hall to partake of a bountiful 
banquet. Department Commander Innis, in charge of 
the management, was ably assisted in the prepara- 
tions by the sub-committee on arrangements, Comrade 
J. G. B. Adams and Representative Joseph B. Maccabe. 
Every seat was numbered to correspond to the 
coupons distributed. It was nearly nine o'clock when 
Governor Brackett and staff, and members of the state legislature, took 
their seats on the platform. The only sight that met their view on the 
floor of the hall was the long rows of white tables, tastefully decorated for 
the occasion. But the balconies were crowded with Grand Army men, who, 
at a given command, marched down stairs and took the places reserved for 
them. It was so arranged that each state delegation sat together, a plan 
which was greatly appreciated, as it enabled the delegates to be seated 
among their personal friends and acquaintances. 

The decorations were beautiful, a principal feature being an elaborate 
American eagle, crossed flags, clasped hands and an appropriate inscription, 
composed of red, white and purple asters, helianthus, native ferns anil smilax. 
The form contained 2,000 asters, and in its construction fifteen men were 
employed for fifteen hours. Each guest found beside his plate an elegant 
souvenir menu, with a life-like portrait of Comrade Alger. 

At the guests' table were seated Department Commander Innis, Gen. 
Sherman, Past Commanders-in-Chief Eairchild, Devens and Warner, Hon. 
Warner Miller, Governor Brackett, Mayor Hart, Hon. John D. Long, Hon. 



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Henry H. Sprague, Hon. W. E. Barrett and others. Commander-in-Chief 
Veazey and Past Commander-in-Chief Alger came upon the platform during 
the banquet, and each was warmly welcomed. 

An hour was passed in discussing the elaborate menu, at the conclusion 
of which Comrade Innis spoke as follows : — 



Address of Comrade Innis. 

"Comrades of the National Encampment: On behalf of the Depart- 
ment of Massachusetts, I extend to you a soldier's welcome ; and in doing 
so I wish also to thank you, and through you the comrades of the several 
Departments, for the honor bestowed upon the Department of Massachusetts 
in allowing us to again touch elbow with elbow upon the line of march. 
I wish to thank you again on behalf of the Department of Massachusetts 
for giving my comrades of this Department a chance to pay the tribute of 
the loving respect they hold towards their old comrade in arms, Gen. William 
Tecumseh Sherman. Many of us followed him from '61 to '65 ; and in the 
year 1890 we all passed under his review through the streets of the city of 
Boston. And now, without further remarks from me, I wish to introduce 
to you, as the master of ceremonies of the evening, a comrade of ours, a 
private of the 38th Massachusetts Regiment, who, for the past twenty- 
seven years has carried in his side a bullet which he received during the 
war of the Rebellion. I have the honor of introducing to you Col. Charles 
H. Taylor." 

Remarks of Comrade Charles H. Ta\<Ioj\ 

"Comrades: The hour is late, and I do not propose to try to make a 
speech; and every gentleman who speaks to you will, I know, be short in 
his remarks, because he will have to stand a terrible ordeal ; and the word 
has gone along the line, in the phrase of Gen. Dix, that any man wh 
tears down the English language for more than ten minutes will be shot 



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on the spot. Now this banquet is given to the delegates by the citizens of 
Boston and of Massachusetts, and it is proper that the representatives of 
that power should welcome you ; and I request that Comrade Geo. S. 
Merrill of Lawrence, a Past Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army, extend 
that welcome in behalf of the citizens." 

Address of Comrade George S. [Merrill. 

"Mr. President: I am only here for a brief moment as a substitute; 
and if there was any man during the war whom the honest, earnest veterans 
did not like, it was a substitute. Ex-Governor Long, the president of the 
executive committee, who was expected to extend to you on behalf of the 
citizens of this great commonwealth its welcome here to Boston, has unex- 
pectedly been called away. I am not going, with this galaxy of distinguished 
orators here behind me, to weary you other than to say that the citizens 
of this imperial commonwealth have never welcomed to her borders more 
cordially, more enthusiastically, more heartily, any body of men than they 
welcome this week, and here tonight — the Grand Army of the Republic. 
If it has given you, my comrades, one-half the pleasure to be here it has 
given us to entertain you, we shall be glad ; and we shall remember this 
occasion of your visit with fondness and joy through all the years to come." 

Comrade Taylor : — 

" Now, comrades, I am going to call upon your new Commander-in- 
Chief to speak to you in reply to Maj. Merrill. You have elected a son of 
New England as the Commander-in-Chief for the ensuing year, and from 
what I know of him you have elected a man who will try to discharge the 
duties of the office in a manner which will be satisfactory to the Order 
throughout the United States. He will stand in line with the men who 
have preceded him and endeavor to do his whole duty." 

Three hearty cheers were called for and given the new Commander-in- 
Chief, after which he advanced to the edge of the stage and spoke as 
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Address of Commander-in-Chief Vea\ey. 
"Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic: The first 



command 



that I have to make as Commander-in-Chief of this great organization is 
that you keep order tonight. The presiding officer here has told you in 
substance that Boston has been too much for me. Ever since Monday 
morning I have been attempting to make myself heard to audiences of ten 
thousand soldiers and more, until my voice is absolutely gone. 

" I thank you, first, comrades, for the cordial greeting, not to me, but 
to the great office to which you have elected me. This is as it should be. 
It is in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Grand Army of 
the Republic. In our organization all men are equal. The untitled private 
in the ranks is with us the equal of the greatest soldier in the world, who 
is your guest tonight — the former general, Sherman, who led you. I am 
glad, comrades, that we have an organization which bases the merit of its 
service, not on the rank it occupies in the army, but according to the spirit 
which impelled him to enter the army to fight the battles of the Republic 
and preserve this Union for the sake of liberty throughout the world. I 
once read somewhere that the great Napoleon said that the time would 
come when a cannon would not be allowed to be fired in all the world with- 
out the consent of the United States of America. When I witnessed that 
great procession the day before yesterday, and when I saw this man, the 
greatest soldier of the world, standing upon the platform to review you as 
you passed by, I thought that the time had certainly nearly come. 

" Comrades, allusion has been made by the presiding officer who intro- 
duced me to the effort that Boston has made to make your visit here one 
of the greatest pleasure. I told you who were at Milwaukee a year ago 
that entertaining was an art, and that no city in the world understood that 
art as the city of Boston, and that if you should come here you would meet 
with a reception and receive an ovation such as no men in the world ever 
received anywhere else. Now, if there is anybody who says that I was a 
false prophet, let him appear and show it now, or forever after be silent. 
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Boston is going to do for you ; and I am sure you will feel at the end of 
the week that there is no place on earth where so much could be done for 
any organization as Boston has undertaken to do for you. 

"But next year, in a year from now, comrades, you have voted to go 
to Detroit ; and I feel, of course, the greatest possible interest that you and 
the thousands and thousands of others shall be there, and that you and all 
the familiar faces that I have seen in this Encampment may be especially 
there; and I want to say to you that which you know, that if Detroit, as a 
city, is anywhere behind Boston, as a city, in entertaining the Grand Army 
of the Republic, it will be made up ten-fold by the fact that my prede- 
cessor, Past Commander-in-Chief Alger, lives there ; and he will make it all 
up. Now, comrades, you are notified that no man would be allowed to 
speak more than five minutes. I thank you most heartily for the cordial 
reception that you have given me, and the cordial manner in which you 
received all of these honored guests who are present and who are called 
upon to entertain you by their words. Thanking you again, I will bid you 
all good night." 

Comrade Taylor : — 

"Now, comrades, you have heard a great deal; you have said a good 
deal about what Massachusetts has done for you this week. You have said 
a good deal about and have appreciated what Massachusetts has dime for 
you in the past few days, and I want to present to you the governor of 
the state, John Q. A. Brackett, who has done his utmost to make this 
occasion a great success. I know you will be glad to hear him and to 
listen to all he has to say. Governor Brackett of Massachusetts." 

Governor Brackett spoke as follows : — 

^Address of Governor Brackett. 



"Mr. Commander, Mr. Toastmaster and Veterans: I am pleased to be 
again one of the guests of the Grand Army of the Republic, and to have 
an opportunity of signifying by my presence the interest of the common- 



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wealth in the exercises of the evening. One of your comrades said to me 
a few minutes ago on the platform, ' This is the biggest week we have ever 
had in Boston.' I agree to that statement. It certainly has been the biggest 
week to me in my life. To have had the experiences I have had ; to have 
stood as I stood on the platform Tuesday, between the President of the 
United States and Gen. Sherman, and in that position to have witnessed 
this magnificent parade of yours ; to have sat, as I have sat this evening, 
with Gen. Sherman on my right hand and the newly elected Commander 
of the Grand Army of the Republic upon my left hand, and to have enjoyed 
all the other things which this week has brought to me, have combined to 
constitute an honor, or rather a series of honors, which rarely fall to the 
lot of any governor of Massachusetts. This week may, perhaps, be called, 
like that Boston charity which aims to give to the poor of the city a few 
days' enjoyment of country scenery and country air in the summer, although 
in a different sense, our 'country week.' The influence of what has been 
taking place in Boston since Monday, of the words spoken at banquets and 
camp-fires and reunions, of the sights and sounds in our streets, of the 
presence of myriads of veterans whose marching has reminded us of the 
days when they marched through our city on the way to the battlefield, or 
of those happier days when the survivors were welcomed back after the 
victory was gained, or of the martial music and the enthusiastic cheers, of 
the waving banners and the decorations upon public buildings and private 
abodes and places of business, and of all the other distinctive features of 
this occasion, has made an impression which cannot fail to be lasting upon 
all who have taken part in or have witnessed them, and which cannot fail 
to turn their minds for the time being from their ordinary vocations and 
ambitions, to surround them with an atmosphere of patriotism, and to give 
their country, its glories in the past, its needs in the present, and its hopes 
for the future, a stronger hold upon their minds and hearts. 

" It is a week to which the people of Massachusetts, civilians as well 
as soldiers, have been looking forward for many months. Their most san- 
guine anticipations concerning it have been more than realized. The 
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ment with reference to the event. At the time of your National Encampment 
in Milwaukee last year, it was suggested to me that a letter to be publicly 
read there, from me, as acting governor of the commonwealth during the 
illness of Governor Ames, urging that the next Encampment be held in 
Boston, might have some effect in helping to bring about that which the 
Massachusetts Department so earnestly desired. I wrote such a letter, in 
which I took the libertv of conveying the assurance that both the legislature 
and the citizens of Massachusetts would unite with the Department in wel- 
coming the delegates and in making their meeting here a pleasant and 
successful one. The result has justified the prediction. In my message to 
the legislature in January last, I recommended liberal action on its part 
upon the subject ; and that body responded by appropriating $50,000 for the 
purpose, and providing for the proper representation of the commonwealth 
upon the occasion. The commonwealth also cordially joined with the Grand 
Armv in inviting the President of the United States to honor the occasion 
by his presence. He kindly complied with the request, and you all know 
how his presence added to the success and the interest of the celebration. 

" Now, in what this state has done in this direction, it has acted with 
a wise regard for the public welfare. Your National Encampments exert 
an influence upon the people which is salutory and ennobling. The meetings 
of the men who have fought side by side — who have faced the same dangers, 
who have endured the same hardships, who have won the same victories; 
the renewal of friendships formed in battle and in camp, the revival of the 
recollections of the old days and the old scenes, and all the incidents and 
experiences of these annual reunions of yours — are not only exhilarating to 
you, but they are also useful to the Republic. 

"They give an added strength and fervor to that patriotic sentiment 
which induced you to defend it in the past and to thereby contribute to that 
grand destiny which it is fulfilling. That patriotic sentiment — that spirit 
of consecration to a great cause which animated the soldier in the war — is 
needed in the citizen in peace. And as the country looked to the army for 
its defence, so whenever and wherever it is menaced today by social, political, 



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moral or economical perils, among the forces upon which it confidently relies 
for its deliverance is the power and patriotism of the Grand Army of the 
Republic." 

The band then played " Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching," 
the whole concourse in the hall heartily helping on. 

Comrade Taylor : — 

" Comrades, we have a distinguished hero here tonight who has been 
introduced in glowing terms so many times that I am going to present him 
him to you simply as a delegate from Missouri, Comrade Sherman." (Long 
continued cheers.) 

Address of Comrade Sherman. 



"Mr. J 1 resident and Comrades: This magnificent Encampment has 
surely been a notable occasion. Even the heavens have smiled upon you. 
Every day has been just such a day as we could have chosen had we had 
the command of the winds and the waves ; and even tonight, in mid-summer, 
in August dog-days, we sit in a comfortable hall with our chosen guests, with 
the balmy air of a May morning, as cool and pleasant as any comrade could 
ask for ; and you can look around you and above you and see the decorations 
of this hall, not too elaborate, yet distinctive ; and everywhere in Boston you 
see the smiling faces of men, women and children, all bespeaking the wel- 
come with which the Grand Army has been received in this great common- 
wealth of Massachusetts. Of course I, a veteran, almost the ' Last of the 
Mohicans,' have received much honor and more than I wanted ; but I am 
glad, my young friends, that you have taken command. I have seen one 
young man pass out of office today and a new one installed, with that 
gentleness and subordination to authority which marks our American history 
and which is the best promise of a glorious future of any single feature 
in our government. 

" Now, my friends, I do not intend to break or make even the five or 
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street have done, and to assure you that in looking back upon the past, I, 
one of your old comrades, am well pleased with you, my sons. As the 
governor of this commonwealth has well stated, the feelings which you 
breathe, the sentiments which you express publicly or in conversation, all 
tend to form a bond of union — it may be of silk, but stronger than any 
that was ever forged on the anvil of Vulcan, We are bound together as a 
win >le and not confined to any one locality. Each locality has its own 
scenes, each locality has its own history and scenery. Surely those in 
Boston command the respect and love and veneration of every American. 
You have all been to Bunker Hill, of course, and seen that monument, and 
you know its tale of history. You have been where Gen. Washington 
hist assumed the command of the American army, which was a command 
that resulted in the freedom of the thirteen American colonies, now extended 
by your fathers to the furtherest coast, consisting of forty-four states, each 
governed by its own local laws, with all subordinate to the whole, like to 
the solar system, which God spreads abroad in the heavens. Now, my 
friends, the Grand Army of the Republic has for its first characteristic, as 
your President has well said, — your Commander-in-Chief, — order, system, 
respect for each other, fraternity, as expressed by your code, charity and 
loyalty; and these are great virtues amongst all men, but especially amongst 
soldiers, where they mean something. 

" You who have fought in the field and touched elbow with your fellow 
soldier never can forget the spark thus caused, stronger than any electric 
spark now, when you meet him in citizen's clothes. He was once your 
comrade, and you love him as a brother. This is fraternity : and that is what 
the Grand Army was organized to preserve and maintain. Loyalty is the 
greatest of all. It may not be more than charity ; but loyalty, obedience to 
the constituted authority so that you may be safe, goes before them all. 
You may differ as widely as the poles, yet for the time being you submit 
to your Commander-in-Chief, or to the mayor of your city, or to the gov- 
ernor of your state, or to the Chief Executive in Washington, with not an 
unwilling love, but with that obedience which comes from the heart and 
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very few here, even in Boston, realize the charity done by the Grand Army of 
the Republic. I have seen Posts way down in southern Missouri, I have 
seen them away off in the mountains of Montana, Oregon and Washington ; 
I have looked at their books, and about one-half of their fees go to charity ; 
and when it comes to be aggregated it runs up into millions of dollars. 
Those little deeds of charity which pervade the continent and stamp this 
Order, entitle you, the Grand Army of the Republic, to be the representative 
body of the survivors of the war. Of course we have organizations like the 
Army of the Potomac, the Army of the Tennessee, the Army of the Cum- 
berland and others. They are local. But this organization covers the whole 
land and permeates it in every fibre, so that wherever there is a Grand 
Army Post there is a point where the patriot may go and claim the authority 
of this grand, noble Order of men. 

"The heavens have smiled upon you here in Boston. I was prepared 
for it. Yesterday you had a grand and glorious opportunity of seeing and 
being seen, of speaking to each other, of renewing the old friendships and 
of making an impression upon the body politic here in Boston which will 
be carried to the four corners of the earth and which will make this a 
notable occasion. May God bless you, and may you continue in the work 
just as your fathers began, and continue in it forever. For wars have not 
ceased and may come again. God grant that they may not. * * But 

as long as man is man he will have passions ; and wars have been, not 
by reason and good sense, but by want of it. Why, we have seen here 
within the last few days a great convention of South Americans ; and of 
course everything was to be settled by arbitration. Well, now they are 
2oint>- for each other, from the Isthmus down to Buenos Ayres. And so in 
Europe they had a peace congress the other day, which our glorious, good 
man Dudley Field presided over; and they decided that war should cease and 
that arbitration should take its place. All right ; I hope they will succeed, 
and all good soldiers hope they will succeed. But, my friends, I do not 
believe they will succeed. Wars will continue as long as man is on earth ; 
and those who are here together should obey the laws of their own country 
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in i.sr>i and 1865, and which you exhibit today and exhibited on the streets 
the other day; and you will come out victors and conqu'erers in the grand 

struggle for existence. I hope and pray that each and every one of yon 
will reach your homes in good health. I expect to go elsewhere tomorrow; 
but wherever I go I will earn" with me the memory and remembrance of 
this occasion." (Great and prolonged applause.) 

Comrade Taylor: — 

" Xow, comrades, I want to present to you the hero of Gettysburg, 
Comrade Daniel E. Sickles. He has done a good ileal of pioneer work 
tor this Order, and his reception this week has been a grand one, and his 
war record and his services for the Order have generously entitled him to 
it." Comrade Sickles of New- York. 



Address of Comrade Sickles- 

Mr. Commander, Mr. Toast-master and Comrades : I think .Aladdin's lamp 
must have been found by Boston. This is the third visit that I have paid 
to this magnificent hall. The first time I came here it was covered with 
beds for thousands of soldiers. The second time I came here, last night, 
the hall was filled with 10,000 veterans listening to eloquent speeches ; and 
tonight it is transformed, by another touch of the magic wand, into a ban- 
quet hall not to be found in any palace I have seen, and a repast has been 
served here fit for kings. This week reminds me of the Peninsular campaign. 
We have had a seven days' battle, and we have been victorious so far in 
everyone. We would have captured Boston, I am sure, the first thing; but 
the mayor seeing what was before him, came forward and put the kevs of 
Boston in our hands. Ever since we have been here we have revelled in 
its delights. I asked Gen. Hooker one day, as I was riding with him in 
Georgia, between Dalton and Resaca, where I was his guest for a short 
time, what he thought was the highest form of enjoyment for a soldier; and 
he said he thought it was campaigning in an enemy's country. I agreed with 
him then; but now I would give a different answer myself: I would say it 



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was campaigning in Boston, where everybody gives you all they have and 
all you want. 

"Comrades, no one can look upon this assembly without emotion, com- 
posed, as it is, of representatives of all parts of the United States, and 
representing every element of industry and employment and occupation 
known to civilization ; and yet this representative assembly also represents 
what was the great army of the United States from 1861 to 1865. And 
here let me pause an instant to make a single remark in reply to those who 
had such direful forebodings of what would happen to our country when 
we organized those vast armies which the exigencies of the time required. 
They were full of apprehension then that that army would be a permanent 
army; that our Government would be a military republic! that a large stand- 
ing army would become a permanent anil necessary institution. And yet I 
declare in this presence, without fear of contradiction, that from the time 
that peace was declared in 1865, no voice — not a single voice — has ever been 
heard from the armies that then existed in favor of establishing or perpetu- 
ating a large standing army in this republic. You are proud of your service, 
proud of your record, ami justly so ; but you are prouder still of the ability 
to exert your influence in maintaining and preserving pure and intact the 
institutions of your fathers and obeying the admonitions of Washington. 
And let me here end by reciting a little incident which I told last night at 
a banquet. It was so well received there by a small number of gentlemen 
that I will venture to repeat it here now. 

" Some years ago, I had the pleasure to dine in Paris with our then 
minister, Gen. Noyes of Ohio. You will remember that he lost a leg in 
battle. Another of the company was our distinguished friend, a former 
Commander-in-Chief of your Order, Gen. Fairchild, now sitting at my right. 
Among the guests were many distinguished diplomats — Prince Orloff, 
ambassador from Russia ; Prince Hohenzollern, ambassador from Germany, 
and a number of representatives from foreign governments. Among them 
was a small type of the ordinary European diplomat, perhaps more expert 
in the waltz than in conducting negotiations. And as Prince Orloff, in his 
soldierly way, told me late in the evening, this little man remarked to him, 



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'Why, I thought we were to meet some American officers of prominence 
here tonight !' 'Well,' said Orloff, 'so we have.' 'Well,' he said, 'whom do 
you mean?' Prince Orloff pointed out Noyes and Fairchild and myself. 
'Well,' said the little diplomat, 'they have no star, no order, no cordon, no 
ribbon, no decoration.' Said Orloff, ' My friend, those men wear decorations 
that no Czar or monarch can give, and that no Czar or monarch can take 
away.' 

Comrade Taylor: — 

" Now, comrades, I want to introduce you to a comrade who has been 
hard at work for the past year, and who has been particularly busy this 
week. Vnu all know him, and you know what he has done. I introduce to 
you your Commander-in-Chief during the past year, Comrade Alger." 

Address of Past Commander-in-Chief Alger. 

"Comrades: I am not going to talk tonight. I have used my voice 
beyond its capacity trying to keep you in subjection during the last few 
days, as you know. But I want to take just one single moment, — in the 
presence of the governor of this great commonwealth, in the presence of 
the mayor of this magnificent, loyal city, — to say for you, to governor and 
mayor, that we appreciate their kindly hospitalities. Governor Brackett 
(turning to his excellency) : so long as a man lives who faces you here 
tonight, they will hold you and the people you so ably represent in grateful 
memory for the care you have taken of us. Mayor Hart (turning to his 
honor): I wish to say r , sir, that the boys in front of you — old some of them 
are in years, but young in heart — extend to you their most cordial thanks for 
all that you and your magnificent city has done for them and for us. Ami 
as we leave the confines of your city, as we pass the borders of your state, 
Governor Brackett, be assured that you will never be forgotten, but so long 
as we live, will be held in grateful remembrance. 

"Comrades, in the little souvenir that has been given to you here, 
filled with cigars, in which I have been complimented by having my face 

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placed upon it, I want to made a correction. The committee has repre- 
sented me in that picture as turning my back upon Commander Innis. That 
I never did and never will do. I wish they would turn the face the other 
way. I like to face the Massachusetts men — Comrade Goodale, Comrade 
Innis and all the comrades who have done so much for us. Comrades of 
Massachusetts, we will face you while we live, and when we die we will ask 
that we be buried with our faces turned toward old Massachusetts." 

Comrade Taylor: — 

"Comrades, we are favored tonight with the presence of Gen. Devens 
of Massachusetts, a man of whom Massachusetts is justly proud, and a man 
whose war record is known throughout the length and breadth of the land. 
I will invite him to speak to you for a few minutes : Past Commander-in- 
Chief Charles Devens of Massachusetts." 

Address of Past Commander-in-Chief c Dnens. 

" I shall speak but for a few moments, comrades ; for we who are the Past 
National Commanders have been sitting here in a row like extinct volcanoes 
who have vomited their flames in times past, but are now quite worn out. 
I can assure you, comrades, that your visit has touched deeply the heart of 
Massachusetts, and that its governor has not spoken one word too strongly 
in its behalf. It has been delightful to clasp again the hands, to look again 
into the faces of brother soldiers, to hear again their voices, — provided, of 
course, they do not speak too long, — and to meet each other in this cordial 
and friendly way. Certainly no incident could occur better showing how 
intimately the fame of the Northern and all the armies of the United States 
are bound together than that which you have seen upon this platform when 
you have seen Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sickles speaking together, and 
remember that Vicksburg and Gettysburg came together. 

"I remember that the Fourth of July, 1863, was the proudest day that 
the American arms had ever known ; because, with the thunders that wel- 
comed in the Nation's natal day, throughout the North rang the cannon 



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that announced the great victor\- of Gettysburg; and they were echoed and 
re-echoed from the South and West by those that told that Vicksburg had 
fallen, and that the Mississippi, its whole mighty length, to use the noble 
phrase of Abraham Lincoln, ' ran unvexed to the sea.' You are in a city 
which is an historic city. It is a city which has once been taken by force 
of arms ; it has received the cannonade directed by Gen. Washington. It 
has been a beleagured city. Its inhabitants, it is true, were all heartily in 
sympathy with the besiegers. It bears in various parts the marks of the 
cannon balls of the Revolutionary army that besieged it. It has yielded 
to its capture by Gen. Washington, and again yielded no less generously to 
its capture by you. The states of Massachusetts and Virginia were the 
great states of the Revolution. They are old states. I hope the love 
between them is not gone yet. 

" I sat today upon the platform in a hall where was being held the 
Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic ; and there were at the 
other end of the hall before me four faces and four pictures. One was 
the picture of our great commander, to whose trumpet call every man of us 
has answered — that of Gen. Grant. Another was that of Gen. Logan, 
endeared to all of us by his exertions in behalf of this very Association ; who 
did more to put it in the position in which it now is than perhaps any one 
of its commanders ; to whom has been accorded the praise of being the first 
volunteer soldier in the army; who had never received the benefit of any 
academic instruction in the art of war ; upon whom was thrown, in the 
early hours of the battle at Atlanta, by the unfortunate death of the gallant 
McPherson early in the morning, the whole weight of that battle, which 
lasted until seven o'clock in the evening ; and where, as Gen. Sherman in 
his report states, with his determined gallantry, whenever any brigade or any 
division flinched, or lost ground by an inch, he personally conducted it into 
its proper place in the line of battle. The two other portraits were portraits 
of Virginians. Honor and praise to the men who retained the true faith 
and who maintained the true honor. One was the face of George H. 
Thomas, noted for his magnificent victory at Nashville; and the other was 
that of David Farragut, whom you have seen, pictured at least, as he was 



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lashed to the maintop of the Hartford, above the smoke of battle, directing 
the battle of each one of his ships. Honor forever to the state that brings 
forth such sons to maintain her true honor and glory. 

"And now, not to prolong these remarks, let me end with the single 
remark of the greatest Virginian of them all, which is applicable today to 
our army as it was to the army to whom it was addressed. They are the 
words which Gen. Washington addressed to the army which he commanded, 
and they are as fit to be addressed to you as they were to be addressed to 
your great forefathers, a hundred and fifteen years ago. ' The fame of the 
Federal army,' said he, ' is secure ; and let the men who compose it remem- 
ber that simple virtues of industry, economy and frugality will render them 
as amiable in civil life as the more splendid qualities of courage and valor 
have rendered them respected in the field.' " 

^Address of Past Commander-in-Chief Warner. 



The next speaker introduced was Past Commander-in-Chief Warner of 
Missouri. He said if there was one thing he was glad of, it was that he was 
a Missourian, and that the next thing was that he was a Past Commander 
of the Grand Army of the Republic. The people from the West who were 
visiting Boston had greatly enjoyed the hospitality shown them on all 
sides, and would carry back with them to their homes only the pleasantest 
remembrances of their stay here. He referred in a very humorous manner 
to the feast which had just been enjoyed, and likened it to those which the 
comrades had enjoyed (?) in the trenches at the front. As he gazed on 
the ranks of the Sons of Veterans in the parade on Tuesday, he realized, 
in a forcible manner, their likeness to the volunteer soldiers of '61, '62 and 
'63 ; but he also realized that they possessed far more knowledge of military 
science now than did the veterans of '64. With all the ceremonies and 
reunions of the past week, not one word of bitterness or of vengeance had 
been uttered toward those who fought against the Union. He realized 
more than ever before that the war ended in '65 ; that the Northern soldier 
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that, with the last heat of the drum, the hand of fellowship was extended 
to the vanquished foe, and allowed them to take back to their homes the 
horses which they would need in their pursuits of life. The annals of time 
would be searched in vain for a parallel to such magnanimity; and the 
evidences of the loyalty of the Union soldier could he found on every 
battlefield, could he seen shining from every star or in every stripe of the 
old flag. 

Address of Past Commander-in-Chief Fairchild. 

Comrade Taylor next introduced Past Commander-in-Chief Fairchild of 
Wisconsin, whose remarks were brief, owing to the lateness of the hour. 
He said that the people of the great West appreciated the hospitality which 
ha«l been extended to them by the people of Boston. For months previous 
to the Encampment preparations had been going on, and he was very glad 
that it had been such a splendid, enthusiastic and glorious success. Although 
the comrades might differ in their desires and in their preference for office, 
the spirit of devotion to country was still throbbing in their breasts. He 
paid a glowing tribute to the loyalty of the soldier in the war for the 
preservation of the Union, and said that the battle was waged not for state 
or section, but for the entire National Union. He was glad that one great 
fact was clcarl)' evident : that the defeated shared equally with the victors. 
He hoped that all might be spared to attend the Encampment in Detroit 
in 1 891, and upon closing was greeted with loud applause. 

Address of Comrade Tanner. 

The last speaker of the evening was Comrade James Tanner. Comrade- 
Taylor, in presenting him, said that the high officials of the Grand Army 
of the Republic had had their full share in the speaking of the evening; 
and he introduced Comrade Tanner as a representative of the rank and file. 
The Comrade's address closely held the attention and interest of the audience, 
notwithstanding the lateness of the hour. 



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He said that the only fitness which he deserved in appearing upon 
such an occasion arose from the desire to recall stirring clays of endeavor for 
a just cause. The men in the ranks were a necessary adjunct to the com- 
manding officers, and he thanked God that the brilliant galaxy of leaders in 
the war had had supreme confidence in the men of their commands, know- 
ing full well that their devotion to their country would sustain them in 
whatever peril they might be. The years are fleeing ; yet all who attended 
the Kncampment felt years younger than before they came, and would carry 
back with them to their distant homes only the kindest feelings towards 
their entertainers. He thanked God that he was born just when he was ; 
that he was permitted to get into line and help to make the flag of the 
Union the only one which had a right to float over this Nation. The com- 
rades are getting old, and some are passing from the stage of activity ; but 
as they go from Boston, never perhaps to gather again, he was happy in 
knowing that when they passed away they would leave the Nation so 
cemented together that it shall be preserved forever. 

At the conclusion of Comrade Tanner's address the assembly joined in 
singing " Auld Lang Syne," and the banquet was a thing of the past. 




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T was a current jest among the veterans en route to Boston 
that they would be fed during the Encampment on brown 
bread and beans, with a sprinkling of clams thrown in 
by way of variety. Among the anticipated pleasures of 
Encampment week was the dual attraction of an excur- 
sion t<> Plymouth and a clam-bake in that historic town. 
If a town was ever literally captured by the veterans, 
Plymouth experienced that distinction on Friday. They 
manifested a solemn reverence as they walked the wind- 
ing streets of America's oldest town, and beheld the 
mementos handed down by that little band of Pilgrims, who, that they 
might be free to carry on religious worship according to the dictates 
of their own consciences, braved the dangers and wintry gales of an 
unknown sea in search of a haven of rest. No visitors ever appreciated 
these memorials of the birth of freedom more than the veterans on that 
occasion. 

The excursion was complimentary to the Grand Army Encampment, 
and long before the advertised time for the trains to start the Old Colony 
station in Boston was thronged with excursionists. P'our special trains 
were provided by the railroad management. 

The first train consisted of ten cars, the second of twelve cars, the 
third of nine cars, and the fourth of ten cars, all filled. The second was 
the official train. The first two cars were reserved for the Grand Army 
leaders and members of the state delegations, while the others were occu- 
pied by the representatives of the National Encampment and their ladies 
and friends. A great multitude desired to take the first train, that they 



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might have a full clay in Plymouth, and hundreds rushed pell mell for the 
platforms the minute the gates were opened. Delegates became separated, 
and were forced to try their luck with the crowd. There was no chance 
for the examination of badges. Fortunately no one was injured by the 
rush to be the first to board the cars. 

Each of the special trains had on board a detail from the ambulance 
corps of the state militia. There were a few cases of sickness needing care. 
The stretchers were called into use and the sick men were taken to the 
baggage car, which was turned into a temporary hospital. 

Governor Brackett could not join the excursionists, owing to previous 
engagements. The newly-elected Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army 
was also absent. Lieutenant-Governor Haile represented the state, and 
Comrade Alger represented the Grand Army as the retiring Commander-in- 
Chief. With Comrade Alger were his wife, two daughters and one son ; 
also Governor Thayer of Nebraska ; Comrade Fairchild of Wisconsin ; Mrs. 
Stockbridge, wife of Senator Stockbridge of Michigan ; Congressman Cogs- 
well, Cols. Sidney M. Hedges, August M. Goetting and A. M. Jackson of 
the governor's staff; Miss Clara Barton; State Senators Coffin and Lowe; 
George H. Hopkins, Past Adjutant-General, and James T. Sterling, Past 
Assistant Adjutant-General, of Past Commander-in-Chief Alger's staff; Past 
Commanders-in-Chief Rea, Burdette, Beath and Kountz ; Comrade George 
W. Creasey and wife ; Comrade J. F. Meech and wife ; Past Judge-Advocate 
General W. C. Reddy of New York ; Comrade Benjamin S. Lovell, Mrs. and 
Miss Lovell; Mrs. Jas. Tanner and daughter; Chairman Goodale of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee, Grand Arm}- of the Republic; Wyzeman Marshall; 
Past Department Commanders Alonzo Williams, Hall, Charles H. Williams 
and Post Commanders Pomeroy and Spencer of Rhode Island ; Past Assist- 
ant Adjutant-General Turner of Rhode Island ; Past Department Commanders 
Hersey and Nash of Massachusetts ; Chaplain-in-Chief Mrs. Littlefield of 
the Woman's Relief Corps ; V. M. Manson, Commander Department of 
Vermont, G. A. R. ; J. H. Goulding, Adjutant-General of the G. A. R. ; 
ex-Governor Ormsbee ; Assistant Adjutant - General A. J. Hall of the 
Department of New Hampshire, -Q. A. R. ; Mrs. Mary S. McHenry, National 



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President of the Woman's Relief Corps; Past Department Commander 
McHenry of Iowa, G. A. R. ; Elias Frauntfeler, Past Commander Department 
of Ohio, G. A. R. ; A. II. G. Richardson, Past Commander Department 
Potomac, G. A. R. ; Past Commander II. M. Brooks of the Department of 
the Potomac, G. A. R., and S. E. Faunce, Senior Vice-Commander; Newton 
Ferree, Past Senior Vice-Commander of the Department of the Potomac, 
G. A. R. ; Mrs. A. M. Davis, President of the Department of Kentucky, 
Woman's Relief Corps ; John M. Keogh, Assistant Adjutant-General, Depart- 
ment Potomac, G. A. R. ; and Past Department Commander H. H. Burbank 
of Maine, G. A. R., and many others. 

Upon arriving in Plymouth the visitors were received by a committee 
and were escorted to Pilgrim Hall, where the formal welcome was given. 
The streets were lined with people, and the Grand Army Posts of that 
vicinity were drawn up in line as escort. President William T. Davis, 
ot the Pilgrim Society, and a member of the Plymouth Board of Selectmen, 
stood at the entrance as Past Commander-in-Chief Alger, Lieutenant-Governor 
Haile, Governor Thayer of Nebraska, Congressmen Cogswell and Morse left 
their carriages and walked toward him. Mr. James D. Thurber presented 
them, and Mr. Davis cordially welcomed the visitors. Mr. Davis said: — 

"Mr. Commander: In behalf of the citizens of Plymouth I welcome 
you and your comrades to this ancient town. While in National Convention 
assembled, it is eminently fitting that you should make a pilgrimage to the 
spot where the foundations were laid of the Republic whose life you saved. 
May your visit to the rock of Plymouth rekindle the fires of patriotism in 
your breasts and inspire you with renewed devotion to your country ami 
flag. In behalf of the Pilgrim Society I welcome you, and your comrades 
and guests, to this hall. By the memorials of the Pilgrims here displayed 
your imagination will be quickened to recall their virtues and their worthy 
deeds. There is no more precious memorial than the sword of Standish 
which I hold in my hand. Let the trusty steel of him who was the 
guardian of our infant nation's life receive a new consecration from the 
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years. I trust, sir, that your visit will be as agreeable to yourselves as to 
us, and that when you depart from our borders you will carry with you 
the assurance that the landmarks of the Pilgrims are in reliable hands 
and will be guarded and preserved for the veneration and instruction of 
generations to come." 

Past Commander-in-Chief Alger replied as follows: — 

"Mr. President and Citizens of tliis historic town and my old Com- 
rades: I am sure that every Grand Army man who faces this historic hall, 
who has heard your words of welcome, — and if he has not heard them, 
knows the substance of them, — deeply appreciates this royal welcome. I 
wish to correct one thing you have said. I was addressed as Commander-in- 
Chief, whereas I am but a faded flower. Therefore the sun does not affect 
me. But, sir, as I have passed my magnificent command over to an abler 
hand, and as I have fallen back into the ranks of my comrades, I 
assure you that as one of them I appreciate the opportunity of visiting 
this historic place on the rock-bound coast where the Pilgrim Fathers 
found their early home. 

"We have seen much in our visit in Massachusetts to awaken 
anew the patriotic fire that belched forth in 1861 when that flag was 
assailed, and when Massachusetts and other loyal states sprang to the front 
and gave to the Nation its best and kept them there, supported by the 
loyal people at home, until we vindicated that flag and crushed every flag 
that opposed ; not only then, sir, but forever. As we have been about this 
state of yours, — this great commonwealth, — and have been reminded of the 
losses and sacrifices during that war, we have come to know that the 
country was worth saving : we have come to know that it is more and 
more valuable than we had ever dreamed of; and as we see more of it and 
more of its people, I assure you that every man here is only glad he had 
an opportunity to offer everything he had in life to save it and to plant 
this flag all over this country. And now, sir, I had not expected this at 
all. I appreciate, I assure you, the hospitality extended through me to 



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these comrades and to our families; and as we go from this place, and as 
we leave the confines of this magnificent commonwealth, I assure you that 
every Grand Army man will earn- in his heart a gratitude that will live as 
long as the blood of life pulsates from his heart ; and as we go we will say, 
'Thank you and God bless you all.'" 

After a brief inspection of the curiosities preserved in the hall, the 
procession formed in the following order: — 

Platoon of Police. 

Chief Marshal, diaries E. Barnes. 

Aids — Capt. Herbert Morrisey. Kenneth Morton, VV. II. Drew. T. C. Brown. Isaac S. 

Brewster, William I'". Atwood, Charles S. Davis. 
Silver Fife and Drum Corps, Plymouth. 
Plymouth Rock Band. 
Maj. E. '1'. Harvell of Rockland, Commander of the County Posts forming the escort; C. F. 

Allen of Whitman, Senior Vice-Commander; William McAllister of Middleboro', 

Junior Vice-Commander; J. W. Sproul of Abington. Adjutant. 
Aids — A. II. Perry and C. P. Hatch of Plymouth: Jas. L. Hall of Kingston; Grover Bennett 

and W. B. Stetson of Middleboro'; Thomas Drew and II. S. Tower of Hanover. 
Weymouth Brass Band. 

Collingwood Post 76, Plymouth; X. L. Savery, Commander; iji men. 
Middleboro' Band. 

E. W. Pierce Post S. Middleboro': R. M. Dempsey, Commander: 90 men. 
Fletcher Webster Post 13. Brockton; J. W. Brown, Commander; ioo men. 
McPherson Post 7;, Abington; II. T. Rochefort, Commander; 50 men. 
Rockland Drum Corps. 

llartsuff Post 74. Rockland; C. II. Chubbuck, Commander: 60 men. 

David A. Russell Post 7S. Whitman; James E. Bates, Commander: 95 men. 

J. E. Wilder Post S3, Hanover; O. T. Whiting, Commander: 40 men. 

Edwin Humphrey Post 104, Ilingham; Thomas Weston, Commander; 35 men. 

Lieut. Ezra S. Griffin Post 131. Scranton. Pa.: E. W. Pierce. Commander. 

Prominent guests in carriages. 

Maitland's 5th Regiment Band. 

Delegate- 10 the National Encampment and members of the Grand Army of the Republic. 

J. E. Simonds Post m, Pembroke; C. A. Bryant. Commander: 40 men. 

Justin Dimick Post 124, East Bridgewater; George Dyer. Commander; 3^ men. 

F. L. Bonney Post 127, Hanson; John Seates. Commander: 30 men. 

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D. Willard Robinson Post 112, Norwell ; J. II. Prouty, Commander: 40 men. 
Martha Sever Post 154, Kingston; G. A. Graves, Commander; 35 men. 
David Church Post iSy, East Marshfield; Henry Eames, Commander; 35 men. 
Delegations of Plymouth County Camps, Sons of Veterans ; Percy Damon, of Camp 69, Pem- 
broke, Commander. 

The procession moved along Court street toward the square, counter- 
marching and escorting Comrade Alger. The march was continued through 
Court and Allerton streets to the Pilgrim Monument, down Cushman street 
to Court, returning through Main, Leyden, Carver, North and Water streets 
to Plymouth Rock, thence through Leyden, Market, Pleasant, South, Green, 
Sandwich, Fremont and Union streets to the clam-bake grounds. An 
immense concourse of residents of Plymouth and citizens from all over the 
southeastern section of Massachusetts lined the streets. 

Only upon two occasions before had the historic town contained the 
number of people approaching that of that day: Grant's visit in 1875, and 
the celebration of the completion of the monument in 1889. A majority of 
the stores and houses along the route were decorated, and many flags were 
flying over the streets through which the procession moved. The park at 
the Old Colony station was in patriotic dress, a feature being the words, 
"Welcome to Old Plymouth," in white, on the grass along the main pathway. 

At one o'clock hosts and guests reached the scene of the clam-bake. 
Thirty-three long tables were arranged, with accommodations for 3,000 
guests. For each of the three thousand a wooden plate, a tin dipper 
(inscribed and designed for a souvenir) and a paper napkin were provided. 
Comrade Alger, Lieutenant-Governor Haile and others were entertained at 
the house of Mr. Burgess, adjoining the field ; but the multitude stood at 
the tables and were served by a corps of two hundred volunteer assistants, 
who distributed the clams smoking hot to the veterans and guests. 

The banquet was interrupted by a sudden shower, which increased 
rather than abated the hilarity of the occasion. It was a ludicrous sight : 
the ladies, veterans and men in civilians' dress eating clams while stand- 
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shelter. The storm cleared as suddenly as it came, and the remainder 
of the day was remarkably pleasant. Men who had never seen clams 
before took delight in watching the workers lift the covers of sail- 
cloth, remove the potatoes and corn, and shovel the bivalves into 
buckets. The visitors gazed at the sea, which was in full view from the 
field, collected in groups to be photographed, or attended the reception 
given by the Woman's Relief Corps. There was a constant stream of 
people passing in and out of Pilgrim Hall during the afternoon. Comrade 
Alger accepted the invitation of Mr. Burgess, and with his son, Comrade 
Hopkins and Judge Austin, went out for an hour's sail. The Lieutenant- 
Governor and ladies were entertained at the home of Col. Stoddard, of 
the governor's staff. Hospitalities were extended generally by the residents 
of Plymouth, and altogether the afternoon was spent most pleasantly, a 
concert being given by the band in front of Odd Fellows' Hall. 

Odd Fellows' Hall throughout the day was the centre of entertainment 
of the visiting members of the Woman's Relief Corps, and every provision 
was made for their comfort by their sisters in Plymouth and vicinity. The 
ladies were not the onlv ones entertained, however, for all Grand Army 
men received a cordial welcome. Lunch, coffee and lemonade were served 
continuously throughout the day. The Plymouth orchestra was in attendance. 
The general committee of arrangements was in charge of Mrs. Abbot Jones, 
wlio was assisted by Mrs. George Gooding, Mrs. Arthur Byrnes and Mrs. 
Reeves Jackson, at the head of the sub-committees, with a host of aids. The 
hall was beautifully decorated, the stage being a mass of ferns, with bunt- 
ing suspended along the gallery and about the room. On the ground of 
green overhead were the words, " Fraternity, Charity ami Loyalty." In the 
centre of the hall was a lily pond filled with fragrant flowers, and each 
guest was presented with one as a souvenir. This feature was prepared by 
.Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. L. P. Howland. 

From two o'clock until half past four a reception was held in the 
lodge room of the hall, where Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, Past National 
President of the Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. Knowles, President Massa- 



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chusetts Department, W. R. C, and Mrs. Innis, wife of the commander of 
the Massachusetts Department, G. A. R., shook hands with the members 
of the Woman's Relief Corps. Among those present were Miss Clara 
Barton; Miss Rebecca Wishwell of Plymouth, aged 84, one of the old 
army nurses ; Mrs. M. D. Lincoln (Bessie Beach), President of the Woman's 
National Press Association ; Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsbee, Vice-President of 
the Association ; Mrs. John Thornton Wood of Washington ; Miss Helen 
R. Holmes, Secretary of the Department of the Potomac, Woman's Relief 
Corps. 

One thousand buckets of clams, seven barrels of sweet potatoes, 3,500 
ears of corn, 500 watermelons, sixteen barrels of biscuits and 225 gallons 
of coffee attested the hospitality of the people of Plymouth at the clam- 
bake, besides profuse private entertainment. 

The return to Boston was made in good order, and without special 
incident. The Old Colony R. R. Co. are to be congratulated upon their 
safe transportation to Plymouth and return of so many persons, under the 
circumstances, without accident. The detail from the ambulance corps that 
accompanied each train were untiring in their efforts to assist the few who 
were so unfortunate as to require medical attendance. However, on this, as 
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./ .\ii;v/ and ^Memorable Event. 



CAMP-FIRE, lighted by the Woman's Relief Corps, closed 
the series of great public gatherings which marked En- 
campment week as one of the most notable in the history 
of the Order. With oratory, music, poetry and song the evening passed 
swiftly away. Governor Brackett, Lieutenant-Governor Haile, Mayor Hart, 
Adjutant-General Dalton, the members of the Governor's staff, Commander- 
in-Chief Veazey and wife, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Comrade Alger and wife, 
Mrs. Gen. Logan and other distinguished people were upon the platform. 
The meeting was called to order by Mrs. E. Florence Barker, Past National 
President, who presided. The audience reached its highest altitude oi 
enthusiasm when Gen. Sherman was seen walking up a side aisle leaning 
upon the arm of Comrade Geo. L. Goodale. The orchestra struck up, 
" Hail to the Chief," and the ripple of applause ended in a tremendous 
round of cheers, led by Mayor Hart. 

The feelings of the audience were stirred by the singing of " The Star 
Spangled Banner" by Mrs. Nellie Brown Mitchell, during which, at the 
appropriate moment, a soldier and a sailor appeared at either end of the 
platform and waved a National ensign and a Union Jack, which created 
sreat enthusiasm. 



Ah->. Barker said: — 

"Ladies of the Woman's Relief Corps, Members of the Grand Army 
and Friends: ( >n behalf of the National Woman's Relief Corps I bid you 
welcome to our camp-fire. Here in Boston, where twenty-three ladies joined 
together to form a Relief Corps, we tonight hold this, our grand festival, 



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because it is our success. The child that we bore and watched and prayed 
for, we have seen walk ; but not without the aid of the brave men of the 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

"We have invited the Governor, the Mayor and friends of the Woman's 
Relief Corps of Massachusetts to join with us in this camp-fire. But it is 
asked, 'How can you ladies build a camp-fire? You do not smoke.' Still 
we have plenty of dry wood, and I propose to light it. [A voice: "That is 
better than smoke."] We have with us many persons who will speak our 
endorsement, which will sound better than if expressed by ourselves. 
Friends, we have with us this evening one of the greatest friends of the 
Union soldier — one who furnished, perhaps, as much inspiration to our 
armies as any person in this land. I have the pleasure of presenting to you 
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe." 

I^emarks of Mrs. Howe. 

" I do not know, dear friends, how that small voice will reach you. I 
have been asked to recite something that I suppose is very familiar to you, 
'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'; and when the President of this Asso- 
ciation said that she would provide dry wood for the camp-fire, I thought 
that in presenting me she had brought forward a tolerably seasoned piece 
of timber. I could not do the noble hospital service that many did, but 
I went again and again to see the soldiers in their camp. The result of 
one of those visits, the first that I made, was the hymn that I will now 
recite to you. I might say, before beginning it, that the first time I ever 
attempted to speak in public was when I visited a regiment in the neigh- 
borhood of Washington. Col. Green, I don't know why, said to me, 
'Mrs. Howe, you must speak to my men.' 'Well,' I said, 'I never spoke; 
I cannot speak,' and I ran away. Finally he brought me back ; ami when I 
stood face to face with those gallant soldiers, I could only say how glad 
I was to see them, how proud and happy I was to be in their presence : 
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Mrs. Howe then recited the 

'Battle Hymn of the Republic. 

Mine eves have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: 

lie is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; 

lie hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrihle, swift sword: 

His truth is inarching on. 
1 have seen Him in the watch-fire-- of a hundred circling camps, 
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; 
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and Baring lamps: 

His day is marching on. 
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel : 
" A6 ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal:" 
Let the Hero born of woman crush the serpent with His heel, 

Since God is marching on. 
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat : 
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat: 
Oh, be swift, ray soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! 

Our God is marching on. 
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, 
With a _;lc>r\ in His bosom that transfigures you and me: 
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, 

While God is marching on. 

Mrs. Barker: — 

" Friends, I have now the pleasure of presenting to you the governor 
of the state of Massachusetts. He has overcome his joy at the arrival of 
the ladies and has got control of his feelings so he can welcome you. It 
is late in the week, and he has had a hard time to get into condition for 
this evening." 

Remarks of Governor 'Brackett. 

"Ladies and Gentlemen: During the present year it has been my good 
fortune to be present at many camp-fires and other assemblages of the Grand 
Army Posts of the commonwealth. On these occasions a number of speeches 
are generally made ; and all of them, except the governor's, are invariably 



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interesting and eloquent. There is one voice with which the oratory usually 
closes, to which it always gives me especial pleasure to listen, and which 
most of all I should regret to miss. That is the voice of the President of 
the Massachusetts Department of the Woman's Relief Corps. This camp- 
fire closes the series of public meetings which have been held in connection 
with the National Encampment during the week, and it is one which I 
should have specially regretted to have had to omit. 

" I am very much gratified to be present in behalf of the commonwealth 
to give you a cordial welcome, to pay my respects to this organization, and 
to join with others in commendation of its noble work. It is an auxiliary 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and, like it, it is based upon the prin- 
ciples of Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty. I am informed that the delegates 
attending the National Convention represent a membership of nearly 100,000 
women of this country, that there are some thirty state Departments, and 
also other detached organizations in states having no Departments. Such a 
band of American women joined together for patriotic and benevolent 
purposes, and actively fulfilling their mission, constitutes an institution for 
which the Nation may well be grateful. Beautiful as are the virtues of 
philanthropy and public spirit in men, they are more beautiful still when 
seen in women. They give an added charm to their possessors and an ele- 
vating influence to the social circle in which they are displayed and the 
aims and the activities which they aid in shaping. 

"Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the participation of 
women in political affairs, there can be none as to the propriety of their 
position and their efforts in directing and carrying on and stimulating 
humane and charitable work. Massachusetts has recognized the value of 
their services in this direction by placing them upon the boards intrusted 
with the supervision of the charitable, reformatory and penal institutions of 
the state. And Massachusetts, which has always sought to be just and 
generous to its deserving soldiers, welcomes their co-operation in this field 
of beneficent action; and in its name I thank you for this generous and 
useful service, and I trust that an ever-increasing and enlarging capacity 
may be granted to you for rendering this same service in the future." 

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After the Swedish quartet had rendered a vocal march in an excellent 
manner, Airs. Barker presented His Honor, Mayor Hart, as one who had 
ordered the weather and had been working in his flower garden on the 
Common ever since the spring opened, preparing for this Encampment. 

%-mar/;s of [Mayor Hart. 

"We did commence in the garden early in the season. When it was 
suggested that we should place there representations of all the Grand Army 
and Army Corps badges that existed at this time, it was a very great 
question whether it could be done. Mr. Doogue, the Superintendent of the 
Common, said to me, ' I can do it, if you will give me carte blanche to go 
to New York and procure the flowers that we need.' I said, 'You have 
my approval, and you can go ahead, provided you can carry out the plan. 
There is a great deal of criticism upon this work, or was at the beginning, 
and we do not want to start on anything unless we can do something that 
will be satisfactory.' In my judgment, we have shown you the handsomest 
Public Garden and the handsomest array of flowers that there is in the 
world. When I went on to the Public Garden on Tuesday and saw the 
crowd of people there, as handsome as these people that are before me 
tonight, their presence was the only addition that was needed to make it a 
veritable Garden of Eden. 

"All this week I have been attending your camp-fires, and have been 
hearing how much Boston has done for you. My time has now come to 
tell you how much we respect the Grand Arm\' — and I mean the Woman's 
Relict Corps just as well, because without the women there would not be 
much for the Grand Army to do. But by their combined efforts we have 
seen what the Grand Army and the Relief Corps are enabled to do as an 
organization. In thanking you for your invitation and reception, I want to 
tell you as to the character of your presence in Boston. It was said that 
we should need an extra police force for the Public Garden, to protect 
everything we had there. I asked the Board of Police to give me that 
force, which they did ; but we had no occasion for the police which we had 

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there before. I have received a letter from Mr. Doogue, in which he said 
that there wasn't even a blade of grass missing. I got up pretty early 
Tuesday morning and went to the Garden to see just what condition it was 
in ; and certainly it looked just as bright and fresh as it did the morning 
before you came. 

"When I sent a message to Milwaukee, last year, asking the Grand 
Army to come here, I was in great doubt. I did not know just what wr 
should do ; and when I promised to do what I did promise it was with a 
considerable mental reservation. But when the appropriation had been passed 
by the city council, I bent all my efforts to have it turned over entirely 
to the committee of the Grand Army. It has been done, and your com- 
mittee has done the work most excellently well. I have followed things up 
very carefully, and had the streets through which the procession was to 
march put in as good condition as it was possible. On Tuesday morning, 
at five o'clock, I went over those thoroughfares, and I found them in first- 
class condition. Your President has given me the credit of ordering the 
weather. I certainly prayed for it, for I heartily believe in prayer ; and I 
believe the prayer was answered. I prayed for sunshine. The sunshine 
didn't immediately come ; but the clouds lifted and it has been pleasant up 
to this time. I hope and trust that it will be just as pleasant for you all 
from the time you leave Boston until you get to your homes and for all 
your natural lives." 

Mrs. Flora E. Barry next sang "The Flag's Come Back to Tennessee." 

Mrs. Barker, in a few complimentary words relative to the National 
organization of the Woman's Relief Corps, presented its retiring President, 
Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, who was cordially received. 

Mrs. Wittenmyer said: — 

" You perceive by my very first utterance that I am not in condition 
to address you ; so I will not inflict a speech upon this audience after the 
clear utterances that I have heard tonight. We expected a great deal of 
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proved itself the combination of everything that is excellent. I believe from 
this <lay that Massachusetts has been true to its reputation. One word 
with regard to the Woman's Relief Corps. We accept with gratitude all 
the kind words you have been good enough to say about it tonight. In 
seven short years there have been gathered together 100,000 of the very 
best women in the land. We are on dress parade tonight ; but we work 
three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, Sundays excepted, and we 
have spent this year in our charity work $375,000. We are in the work 
to stay, fur the veterans, ami have at our finger-tips thousands of dollars 
to help those brave men who have fought for us." 

Mis. Mary E. Knowles read the following poem, written for the occasion by 
Kate Brownlee Sherwood of Toledo, Ohio, Past National President \Y. R. C.: — 

The (Massachusetts IVoman. 



A salute! And yet another! 

A salute while the bugles play! 

For the peerless Puritan mother. 

For the mothers of Plymouth Bay ! 

For the royal Relief Corps women, 

The glory of Boston town ! 

For the women of the grand old commonwealth 

Who share in her bold renown 1 

Through the ice and the snows 

The Muyflo-vi 1 goes. 

Through the racking, roaring sea, 

And the breakers that dash on the Ice: 

And the old hull knocks 

On the ragged rocks, 

And the Puritan kneels to prav 

To the Ford whom the winds obey. 

Matrons and maidens are there 

With their soothing hands on the head 

Of the fainting and famished, 

And the wrinkled brow of care : 

Maidens and matrons are there 

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Heartsick, homesick and weary, 

Bravest when all is most dreary ; 

Gaining courage and trust 

From the frost and the snows and the rust, 

And the fever and famine sore. 

And the shadow of death at the door. 

Matron and stately maiden. 
Mothers anil mates of men — 
Of invincible Puritan men; 
Sowing with hands full laden, 
Seed that shall blossom again ; — 
Blossom in Revolution 
And the birth of a constitution 
Brought forth in the freeman's fight. 
In the daring defence of right : 
In the splendor of right made might; 
In the century flower of State; 
In a Union grand and great, 
The fruit of a mighty endeavor, 
One and forever. 

Aye ! it is brave to be going 

Forth to the fife and the drum, 

Out where the bugles are blowing. 

Hearing the drum say, "Come;" 

Loosed is the voice of the dumb. 

And the halt and the lame 

They leap in acclaim, 

And the beardless boy says, "Come;" 

And the horses are neighing, 

And the trumpets are braying, 

Ami the heroes are shouting, "Come." 

Aye ! it is brave to be going 

Where the bugles are blowing; 

Where free men are met, 

With faces firm set; 

And they hold up strong hands. 

And they vow to be true. 

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For their land of all lands: 

Ami the shells are a-screaming, 

And the rockets are gleaming; 

And the roar of the cannon says, - Conic: 

Come, patriot, come." 

But the mother at home in her sorrow. 

Or the wife with the babe on her knee: 

\o cymbals shall gladden her morrow, 

Xo mourner so mournful as she: 

And she swoons in her pain 

When she hears the refrain 

Of the jubilant marches afar: 

Of the thunderous chorals of war. 

() son ! with the golden locks 

All crimpled and crimsoned and wet, 

With the dews of death in them set, 

Where the surge of the battle shocks. 

O father! so stark and still, 

Where the gunners charge over the hill. 

And the mowers of death are thick. 

And the heart of the hero is sick. 

Do you hear her calling you, '-Come." 

Above the fife and the drum. 

And the cannon that roars and rends 

Both foes and friends? 

But Oh for the Puritan mother. 

Or the maiden of Plymouth Bay! 

When husband, father and brother 

And lover are marching away. 

When the last bread is broken, 

And the last vows are spoken, 

And the kisses are sweet on the lips 

As honey from the comb as it drips : 

And the sword and the belt are in place, 

And the horror of death creeps apace '. 

Ami -he smiles a farewell. 

And she whispers, "Be true 

To the cause that is calling for you; 

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And dearer than mother or wife 
The truth that is calling for you 
From the scorn and confusion of hell ; 
And better the bonds of the grave 
Than the gyves of the slave!" 

Do you hear them? The Minute Men marching! 

They have leapt the dread valley of bones; 

Above them the brow overarching, 

Beneath, the sacrificial stones 

Where the martyrs are making their moans. 

Do you hear them? The Minute Men marching! 

They are shaking the kingdoms and thrones. 

They are marching and marching and marching; 

The bow of the Lord overarching ; 

And the son takes the place of the sire, 

And their path is a pillar of fire, 

As they're marching and marching and marching! 

The promise of God overarching. 

Do you hear them? The Minute Men marching! 

In the Baltimore streets they are marching, 

And the drops of their fiery baptismal 

Have crimsoned the cup of their chrismal? 

Do vou hear them? The Minute Men marching! 

The shadows of death overarching. 

And beneath them confusion abysmal. 

Do you hear them? The Minute Men marching! 

() imperious Puritan mother! 

Lo, the ruddy red cross overarching, 

She comes, keeping time with her brother. 

When he faints she is there to relieve him, 

When he falls she is there to receive him ; 

When the cannon roars out 

In the charge and the rout, 

And the frenzy of wrath 

Cuts its lurid long path, 

'Till the rider and horse 

Are down in its course; 

No horror shall force her to leave him, 

No disaster to que>tion or grieve him, 



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And her voice is the tinkle of timbrels 

When the battle is crashing its cymbals: 

" By the Stars and the Stripes floating o'er you, 

F.\ the mothers and wives who adore you. 

By the commonwealth blazing with gl«r\. 

By a Union transfigured in story. 

By the Puritan pride of endeavor. 

Be freemen forever and ever." 

And the hosts of the Lord overarching, 

Massachusetts goes marching and marching. 

( ) heroes of siege and of battle ! 
Recounting your conquests again, 
When the drum throbs of victory rattle 
Make room for the angels of pain. 

For the angel who sang in the dawn 
Of the glory of God marching on! 
For the white-ribboned angel of right 
Lifting up pleading voice in the night! 
For the angel who carries unfurled 
The bannered red cross to the world ! 

For the angel who bears on her breast 
The badge of sweet charity's quest : 
The cradle of liberty swung 
From the cross that the crusader sung! 

A ^alute and yet another ! 

A salute while the bugles play, 

For the peerless Puritan mother. 

For the mothers of Plymouth Bay; 

For the royal Relief Corps women. 

The glory of Boston town ; 

For the women of the brave old commonwealth, 

Who share in her bold renown. 

Mrs. Barker said : — 

"We have with us one whom we delight to honor — the wife of him 
who created Memorial Day in the Grand Arm)' of the Republic, and who, 
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doubt of our success, said to us : ' What badge will you ladies adopt ?' And 
a member of the committee said: 'We shall not infringe upon yours, 
General.' He said: 'Do not misunderstand me; I should like to pin the 
badge of the Grand Army of the Republic on the breast of every woman 
who is ready to work for the veteran soldier, and I should not be afraid to 
trust it there.' We owe very much to his companion, who taught him this 
noble faith in woman. It is with very great pleasure that I present to you 
Mrs. Mary A. Logan, the wife of Gen. John A. Logan." 

Mrs. Logan was received with tremendous cheering, but was so much 
affected by it and by the touching allusion to Gen. Logan that she was 
unable to speak, but took her seat, after bowing her acknowledgments amid 
renewed cheering. 

Miss Ella Chamberlain then whistled " Fior Di Margherita" in such a 
manner that the audience demanded an encore, and continued to applaud, 
causing Mrs. Barker to remark : — 

" We always call upon the Commander-in-Chief to help us when we get 
into danger. I have the pleasure of presenting Gen. Alger. He has just 
retired from the chair, and we have not yet learned to say ' Past Commander- 
in-Chief.' " 

l^emarks of Comrade zAlger. 

" I am indeed grateful, ladies of the Woman's Relief Corps, for being 
permitted to say a single word to you, to encourage you in the great work 
you are doing. I am, however, somewhat of the opinion that we may about 
as well stop praising you ; for the fact is, ladies, we begin to feel towards 
the Woman's Relief Corps the sentiment expressed by President Lincoln 
concerning Mrs. Lincoln: 'Why,' said he, 'I never think of thanking 
Mrs. Lincoln for what she does for me' — the highest compliment that man 
can pay to woman. 

" What she does for charity comes as naturally as the breath comes from 
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There is not a woman in the land whose first impulse is not to aid the 
suffering and the need)-. 

" The fact is, ladies, you have gotten so strong I don't think you need 
very much help from the men. We think it is about time that you take 
the laboring oar and that we take our places as passengers in the craft. 
We have become so accustomed to having you meet every want, that we do 
not think it possible that any needs can come without a supply from you 
to meet it. 

" But, ladies, seriously ; as I have travelled over this great country 
during the past year, visiting many places, perhaps I have seen one hundred 
kindred organizations of yours. I have found . in even- place willing and 
glad testimony to the fact that you are doing the major part of the work 
of charity and relief for our disabled comrades, for their wives, for their 
widows, for their old fathers, their old mothers and their children. And it 
seems to me that it is superfluous talk to tell you that you are doing the 
noblest work on earth. 

" You may be sure your work is appreciated. I am certain that you 
never find a man whose heart beats beneath the blue who does not wish 
to show in his every act that he is grateful to you and appreciates your 
magnificent work. 

" It is one of the great sorrows to me in laying down this great office 
of Commander-in-Chief and handing it over to the man whom I know will 
fill it more ably than I, that I shall have no excuse to go where the repre- 
sentatives of the Woman's Relief Corps gather, where I can always be 
announced and where I can have the first say ; and I want to tell you, 
Comrade Veazey, that if you get along at home without any difficulty, when 
you come to settle up your accounts and turn them over to Mrs. Veazey, 
you will do pretty well. But, sir, I wish you every success. I wish the 
Woman's Relief Corps every prosperity. Every dollar you collect from a 
man for charity helps your work and enriches the giver. Every dollar that 
is given for charity, whether it be for soldiers or whether it be for those 
who know nothing of the sufferings of war, enriches by just so much the 
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now, and shall always repeat, the one great blessing of life to man is the 
privilege and the opportunity of doing something for others less fortunate 
than himself." 

At this point, a burst of applause went up, the cause for which was 
apparent when Gen. Sherman was seen approaching down one of the side 
aisles. The applause grew into cheers as he came upon the platform. 
Resuming, Comrade Alger said: — 

" Gen. Sherman, you came in at the last end and the best part of my 
speech ; but I want to say to you, sir, that you are the dessert for any 
man's speech, and I gladly surrender my place to you." 

Mrs. Barker : — 

"The last speaker found a little fault because he was interrupted by 
the ranking officer. It is impossible to outrank the comrade I now have 
the pleasure of introducing to you. All who outranked him have passed over. 
He alone is left. I have the honor to introduce to you Gen. Sherman." 
(Great applause, which culminated in a most enthusiastic ovation when 
Mayor Hart sprang to his feet and called for three cheers for the General.) 

Remarks of Gen. Sherman. 



"Ladies and Gentlemen : I am just from the cars, having spent a 
charming day with a most delightful family at the old city of Salem. I 
did promise yesterday to make an appearance here tonight — not to speak, 
but merely to manifest by my presence the interest I feel in every move- 
ment which tends to increase the kindly nature which men and women 
should share in the glorious destiny of our country. Of course, ladies 
habitually have homes and the care of children ; and they train future 
heroes to be ready for whatever contingency may arise, be it peace or war. 
For their efforts in that regard we all bow to them. Kindly offices consti- 
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long as man is man and woman is woman. I cannot speak for the other 
sex; I can only speak in general terms of the feelings of a soldier towards 
those at home who maintain the domestic relations while we are struggling 
with a fearful enemy. I hardly suppose I can interest an audience of this 
kind. But so far as manifesting an interest in the objects of this Asso- 
ciation, — the Woman's Relief Corps, — I certainly will add my mite of praise 
and approval. I wish them prosperity ; I wish them success in their move- 
ment. I hope they may be spared the care of the wounded and of the 
sick, or of making provision for those who are at the front. They know 
their interests quite as well as we do. We must bear the brunt of the 
battle. And they can alleviate its necessities and sorrows. That is their 
office; and I am sure, from what I have seen of the ladies connected with 
this Association, that they will fulfil it all over this land of ours. 

" I can hardly disassociate myself from the army itself. I do not mean 
by 'army' a body of men assembled and organized, armed and equipped for 
war; but I mean that noble army of men that constitutes the strength and 
force of a nation. All young men are more or less soldiers ; all middle- 
aged men are more or less soldiers. The old are excused, properly so, 
because they know not when their powers of usefulness cease ; and they 
had better get out of the way and let these young people take the reins 
in their hands and drive us to the destination, be it what it may. I am 
always delighted to see the young men of our country rise to the occasion ; 
and at every assemblage of the Grand Army of the Republic I am more 
and more impressed that the laws of nature are the true laws : that the 
old men should retire, — the)- may tender counsel from time to time when 
they are asked for it, not otherwise, — and that the young men should do 
the work, and that the ladies should sympathize with them in their tasks 
and aid them when it lies in their power. 

" We stand here on historic ground. We stand beneath a temple whose 
historic fame is world-wide. Here have occurred scenes which every patriot 
loves to dwell upon. And wherever we go, whether it be in the streets of 
Boston, or in the suburbs of Boston, or in the villages which lie round 
about, we see repeated the names which were made dear to us as boys and 

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girls in our schools. Who has not heard of Bunker Hill and Lexington 
and Concord ? They are here today. Their children are here, their grand- 
children, their great-grandchildren — yea, it may be the fourth generation. 
And so of Dorchester Heights ; and so of many other places you could 
name around Boston, every one of which recall the memories of which even 
I only remember from books : for, gentlemen and ladies, I was not in the 
Revolutionary war. It sometimes makes me feel old when I see boys twenty- 
five and twenty-six years of age turning up their ears to hear more dis- 
tinctly about the war of the Rebellion. They are just as innocent of it as 
we were of the Revolutionary war when we went to school. 

" But these organizations — the Grand Army of the Republic, the various 
army societies, the Ladies' Relief Association — all aid in teaching the young 
what their fathers and grandfathers did before them : the lesson of patriot- 
ism, an object lesson stronger than any ever spread before you in types, 
whether of gold or silver or common black ink. Yes, my friends, you of 
the Grand Army of the Republic : your wives and children, whether they r 
belong to the Relief Corps or not, spread before the youth of the rising 
generation a better knowledge of the principles which begot our Constitu- 
tion, which were developed as we progressed, and which finally met a glorious 
result in giving us a united country, one and indivisible, now and forever, 
to the end of time.'' 

Mrs. Nella Brown Pond then recited "The Bivouac on the Battlefield," 
after which Comrade Jas. Tanner was presented and spoke as follows: — 

Remarks of Comrade Tanner. 

''Ladies of Woman's Relief Corps and Friends: Last night we thought 
that we had reached the altitude of Boston's possibilities; but we are tonight 
again surprised by the magnificence of this great gathering. This would 
not be the city of John A. Andrew in the past if it would not be ready at 
all times to welcome the men who made this gathering possible ; and I am 
not surprised that the mayor of the city has turned himself into a gardener 
for the purpose of welcoming the men who fought our battles in the past. 



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" Let me say that if it hail not been for the impetus given to the 
Smith by the women of the South we could have conquered its armies in 
one-quarter of the time. They braved our onslaught with the strength of 
their lives, because the}' knew if they did not do all that was possible in 
the battle line they would have to brave the contumely of their women at 
home. Tonight we are the guests of the Woman's Relief Corps — I wish 
I could say more in praise of their work. Some of them may grow gray- 
haired with time, but they will always be young to us. Thank you, and 
God bless you for your great work." 

Mrs. Barker: — 

" The Commander-in-Chief has issued his first order to his comrades, 
and we are now ready to receive it for the Woman's Relief Corps." 



Commander-in-Chief L'ca;cv. 

"Ladies of the Relief Corps: I did not come in here tonight for the 
purpose of receiving an applauding greeting from either you or my com- 
rades of the Grand Arm}', but rather simply to make my stage bow to this 
grand organization and to express, as you see I shall be obliged to from 
the condition of my voice, in the fewest words, my feelings of profound 
gratitude and respect for the grand, glorious, noble work of your organiza- 
tion. When your committee came into our Encampment yesterday and told 
us of your great numbers and of your great contribution to charity, amount- 
ing to many hundred thousand dollars, it occurred to me how much more 
potency and power there are in simple facts than in any words, and how 
much loftier is the eloquence of such facts than any that can fall from 
human lips 

" When I was elected to the great office to which your presiding officer 
has been pleased to allude, I was depressed and well-nigh overcome at the 
thought of the tremendous responsibility that was resting upon me. But 
then, when I thought again that the Woman's Relief Corps is the right 

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hand of the Grand Army of the Republic, I felt that I should be equal to 
this great undertaking. But again tonight, when f heard from my pre- 
decessor that this grand and great occasion of the Woman's Relief Corps 
is but the beginning of what I have got to encounter for twelve months to 
come, my heart again sank, until I thought, ' We have another auxiliary 
force, that is the left hand of the Grand Army of the Republic, upon which 
to call to sustain me on such occasions as this and others ; and that is the 
Sons of Veterans of the war.' 

"Ladies of the Relief Corps, in closing, — because I must not delay 
you at this late hour, and especially not in the condition of my voice, — I 
wish to say that if there is any act, any influence of mine that can be of 
any aid or assistance to your organization, I hope you will freely call upon 
me ; because while I shall freely give it I know that I shall receive an 
hundred fold more from you than it will be possible for me to do for you." 

Other Exercises. 



Miss Clara Barton was next introduced, but declined to speak. 

Past Commander-in-Chief Paul Van Der Voort of Omaha was the next 
speaker, and spoke earnestly of the great and good work done by the 
Woman's Relief Corps during the few years' existence of that Association. 

Mrs. McHenry was then presented, and expressed the hope that she 
would soon be able to address audiences in filling her new position as 
President of the National Woman's Relief Corps. 

Assistant Adjutant-General Monroe was introduced and spoke briefly. 

Mrs. Elizabeth D'Arcy Kinne, Past National President of the Woman's 
Relief Corps, Judge Advocate-General Howland of Chelsea, for the Sons of 
Veterans, and Lieutenant-Governor Haile, made short addresses in praise of 
the Woman's Relief Corps, after which the camp-fire came to a close. 

This magnificent gathering, brilliant in its array of noted leaders in the 
Woman's Relief Corps and Grand Army, of honored statesmen, heroic 

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soldiers and men and women eminent in the world of literature and letters, 
whose inspiring words on this occasion are worthy of permanent record on 
the pages of history, was a most fitting close of a week that will be grand 
and rich in the annals of the Woman's Relief Corps and Grand Army or- 
ganizations for the year 1890. 

The themes of the hour thrilled all who listened. The eloquent words 
that fell from the lips of the speakers as they recounted anew the story of 
our country's salvation through the heroism of man and the brave, tender, 
tireless work of woman, the tumultuous applause that rang out from the 
great multitude responsive to the sentiments expressed, told how truly these 
heroic services were remembered and appreciated. It was an appropriate 
finale to a programme formulated by the Massachusetts Relief Corps after 
months of careful planning and arduous toil by its committees, and was an 
added glory to the Order. 

In July the Executive Committee of the National Encampment, imagin- 
ing that the expenses of the Relief Corps in preparing for its Eighth 
Annual Convention and attendant festivities would be greater than its 
resources would permit, also realizing that much of the work involved would 
consist of auxiliary aid to the Encampment committees, passed a vote appro- 
priating from its treasury for the use of the Woman's Relief Corps the sum 
of three thousand dollars. This appropriation was not called for, and finally 
was firmly though gratefully declined. Unaided by the Grand Army the 
Corps completed its preparations and paid its bills. The women, true to 
their purposes and the principles of their Order, proved themselves, indeed, 
auxiliaries to the' Grand Army of the Republic. 

The following communication will explain itself: — 

Boston, Sept. 13, [S90. 
Mr-. Emma B. Loivn, 

Chairman Executive Committee, II". J\. C, Department of Massachusetts. 
Dear Madam : The Executive Committee desire to convey to the Woman's Relief 
Corps its acknowledgment and high appreciation of the work performed by your committee, 
in so generously and abundantly providing lunch for the delegates to the National Encamp- 

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ment of the Grand Army of the Republic, and for its valuable aid in the labor of prepara- 
tion and successfully performing the pleasant duties of Encampment week. 

That your grand work, so cheerfully undertaken and completed with glorious results, 
has been done entirely through the aid and efforts of the members of your organization, and 
without any pecuniary assistance from our committee, makes a record for the Woman's 
Relief Corps. Department of Massachusetts, of which its members may well have a just 
feeling of pride. 

We extend to you and your committee our congratulations upon the grand success 
attending the entertainment of the Eighth National Convention, Woman's Relief Corps. No 
feature of the week of duty and of pleasure was more enjoyable than the camp-fire on the 
evening of Friday, Aug. t6. 

We wish to express to your committee, and through it to the organization vou 
represent, our sincere, cordial thanks for the aid rendered us; and we hope that the 
fraternal bond uniting the Woman's Relief Corps and the Grand Army of the Republic 
may strengthen with each succeeding year of duty in the soldier's cause. 

Sincerely and fraternally yours, 

George L. Gooihle, 
Clmi i- iihi n Execu/h'c Committee, National Encampment /Sqo, G. A. A'. 

The decorations by the Relief Corps of the various headquarters and 
other places during Encampment week, were extensive and wonderfully 
beautiful in design and effect, and attracted the admiring attention of 
hundreds of thousands of people. The halls, which it adorned with the red, 
white and blue and with beautiful flowers and objects of patriotic interest, 
were bowers of loveliness, and showed marvellous artistic taste and skill in 
the decorator's art. Its receptions and entertainments were a delight to 
all, and will long be remembered with pleasure by those who were so fortu- 
nate as to participate in them. For the results of its Eighth National 
Convention and its official exhibit for the year, it is to be congratulated and 
commended. 

Certainly this Order is accomplishing great and noble work for sweet 
charity's sake, and from it fragrant incense will always arise before One 
who has said of the virtue charity, "It is the greatest;" and of true benevo- 
lence, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have 
done it unto Me." 



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The Grand Army of the Republic is at the zenith of its existence; 
not nian\- nunc can be added to its ranks, and its members are fast 
fading away. Not so with the Woman's Relief Corps, which is rapidly 
increasing and will soon outnumber the Grand Army. This is an encour- 
aging fact, for it means wider helpfulness and tenderer cares for the 
veteran and his loved ones. Many hands will now be stretched out to aid 
him, where there were but few before. But it has a deeper, broader 
significance than charity and fraternity. It means increased National 
strength and purity ; for this noble band of women are engaged in inculca- 
ting the principles of loyalty to our flag and love of our country in the 
minds of the youth of the land : and this is added security to the body 
politic, the perpetuation of American liberty and American institutions and 
a sisterhood of states one and inseparable. 

"What is nobler lor a woman 

Than to know within her hands 
]~ the destiny of nations 

Ami the Tate of many lands?" 




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NCAMPMENT WEEK was so filled with reunions and 
events of interest for individual Posts and Departments, 
that an enumeration of all would be a difficult task. 
Monday was chiefly devoted to the reception of the visit- 
ing Posts, both in Boston and the suburbs. A particular 
feature of these occasions were the many lawn parties in 
honor of notable visitors, given in the towns and cities 
about Boston, which lent an air of novelty both pleasing and attractive. 
One of the leading receptions was that given by Edward W. Kinsley 
Post 113, of Boston, to the celebrated Lafayette Post 140, of New York, 
at the Parker House, Monday. The reception was held in the parlor from 
six to seven o'clock, following which was the banquet and the after-dinner 
oratory. Commander George A. Sawin presided. Among the distinguished 
guests present were President Harrison, Comrade Alger, Governor Brackett, 
Secretary of War Proctor, Secretary of Agriculture Rusk, Secretary of the 
Interior Noble, Hon. William McKinley, Hon. John D. Long, Comrades 
A. W. Greeley, Daniel E. Sickles and Charles Devens, Adjutant-General 
Dalton, Comrades Lucius Eairchild and Floyd Clarkson of New York, 
Rev. Minot J. Savage, Mayor Hart, Comrade Edward A. Horton, Governor 
Hoard of Wisconsin, Asa P. Potter, Emerson Brooks, the California poet, 
Comrades W. W. Blackmar and Cyrus Bussey, Rear Admiral Gherardi, 
Commander Winfield S. Schley, Collector Beard, Comrades William Cogswell, 
Paul H. Kendricken and Nathan Appleton. 

It was shortly after nine o'clock when President Harrison appeared at 
the doors of the dining-room ; and as soon as his presence became generally 
known, enthusiastic cheers arose from all parts of the dining-hall, as the 
chief magistrate of the Nation and his party were escorted to their seats. 



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The President, though looking particularly well, seemed somewhat fatigued 
by the travels and labor incidental to the receptions he had passed through 
during the afternoon. Comrade Charles H. Taylor was the toastmaster, and 
the addresses of the evening were made by President Harrison, Comrades 
Alger and Devens, Egbert L. Viele, Commander of Lafayette Post, Comrade 
Sickles, Mayor Hart, Department Commander Clarkson of New York, 
Comrades A. W. Greeley of the Weather Bureau and E. W. Kinsley, the 
"father" of the receiving Post. 

The address of President Harrison was as follows : " I do not count it 
the least of those fortunate circumstances which have occasionally appeared 
in my lite that I am able here tonight to address you as Comrades of the 
Grand Army of the United States. It is an association great in its 
origin, great in its achievements and altogether worth}' of perpetuation until 
the last of our associates shall have fallen into an honored grave. It is not 
my purpose tonight to address you in extended speech, but only to say that, 
whether walking with you in the private pursuits of life or holding a place 
of official responsibility, I can never in either forget those who upheld the 
flag of this Nation in the days when it was in peril. Everything that 
was worth}' of preservation in our history passed, everything that is glowing 
and glorious in the future which we confront, turned upon the issue of 
that strife in which you were engaged. Will you permit me to wish for 
each of you a life full of sweetness, and that each of you may preserve 
untarnished and undimmed that love for the flag which called you from 
your homes to stand under its folds amid the shock of battle and amid 
dying men. I believe there are indications today of a revived love for the 
flag. I could wish that no American citizen could look upon it without 
saluting it." 

TIw 01 i Vermont 'Brigade. 



Boston Common, the scene of so many historic events, added another 
notable gathering" to the list when on Monday evening some three thousand 
veterans, members of the Old Vermont Brigade, held a reunion beneath the 



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elms of Beacon street mall. Not only were the surviving soldiers of the 
brigade there, — members of the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and 
Eleventh Regiments, — but veterans of the First, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, 
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth 
Regiments of Infantry and of the First Vermont Cavalry were also among 
the assembled ex-Union soldiers, together with the men who composed 
Stannard's famous brigade, which won immortal fame at Gettysburg in the 
crisis of that great battle. 

Comrade Alger, Mrs. Logan and other famous persons were the guests 
of Salem during the day, and the event was one of the proudest in the 
history of that ancient city. A parade, banquet and speeches were in- 
cluded in the programme. 

Some of Tuesday's Attractions. 

The occurrences of Tuesday, the official opening day of the Encamp- 
ment, crowded upon one another so thickly that the veterans at times hardly 
knew which way to turn in order to secure the greatest entertainment. 
There were but few reunions, as the parades took up the greater part of the 
day ; and the reception at Mechanics Hall in the evening was too tempting 
to let slip by, to those not wearied by the long march. 

The (Mayors' Club Inception. 

Among the leading events of the day was the reception by the Mayors' 
Club at Young's Hotel. The principal guests of the evening were President 
Harrison, Vice-President Morton, Secretaries Proctor, Noble and Rusk, 
Admiral Gherardi, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Comrades Warner Miller, Benj. 
F. Butler and Charles Devens, Private Secretary Halford and visiting 
mayors from many cities outside of Massachusetts and New England. 

The first speaker was President Harrison, who made the following 
remarks : — 



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"Mr. President : I wish only to thank you f < >r this cordial welcome. 
Being on my feet, I cannot refrain from expressing here my deep sense of 
gratitude for all the evidence of friendliness which has been shown me 
during my brief stay here in Boston. The President of the United States, 
whoever he may have been, from the first to the last, has always found 
in the citizenship of Massachusetts staunch supporters of the Union and 
Constitution. It has never occurred that he has called upon this great 
commonwealth for support that it has not been cordially and bravely 
rendered. In the parade, which we have seen today, of the survivors of 
so many veterans of the war for the Union, and of the Sons of Veterans 
of the war, coming on now to take the fathers' places in civil life and to 
stand, as they were in their day, a bulwark of the Nation's defence, we 
have seen a magnificent evidence of what Massachusetts has done in defence 
of the Union and the flag, and in these young men a sure promise of 
what she would again do if the exigency should call upon her to give her 
blood in defence of the Nation. Let me again fervently thank you for 
your interest and friendliness and bid you good night, and, as I must leave 
you tonight for Washington, to hope that the closing exercises of this 
grand and instructive week may be pleasant, and, as the outcome of it all, 
that there may be rekindled in the hearts of you all, and of these comrades 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, a newer love for the flag and for the 
Constitution, and that this may all inure to us in social, family and public 
life." 

President Harrison, Vice-President Morton, the cabinet officers, Governor 
Brackett, Mayor Hart ami Admiral Gherardi then retired to attend the 
gathering at Mechanics Hall. 

Other addresses were made by Comrades Sickles and Butler, Congress- 
man Boutelle of Maine, Comrade Warner Miller, Capt. Selfridge of the 
Charlestown Navy Yard and Comrade J. C. Robinson of New York, when 
the affair came to a close. 



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The Kansas Camp-Fire. 



In addition to other evening entertainments, a camp-fire was held by 
the Kansas delegation in Music Hall. The attendance was not as large as 
predicted, but what it lacked in numbers was made up in enthusiasm. At 
the rear of the hall was a mammoth Hag which spanned the entire width 
of the stage. The portraits of Lincoln, Grant and Sheridan were attached 
to its folds. The front of the lower gallery was curtained with maroon 
velvet and spangled with golden stars. The upper tier was treated in the 
same manner, with the exception of the color, which was a pale blue. 
Streamers radiated from the centre of the ceiling to the upper coping, and 
flags were festooned beneath the entablatures. Beneath were circular shields 
embellished with stands of colors. Under the galleries and attached to the 
pillars were silken banners of red, white and blue, and over the door-ways 
were draped the National emblems. The edge of the overhanging sounding 
board was hung with flags. In the centre of the glowing surroundings 
shone out the stars of the Grand Army badge on a white silk field. 
Portraits of a number of the leading generals of the war were placed on 
the walls above the upper galleries. 

Among the distinguished citizens of Kansas present upon the platform 
were the following: ex-Governor George T Anthony, ex-Congressman Louis 
Hauback, Department Commander Ira Collins, O. H. Coulter, of The 
Western Veteran of Topeka, Judge George Green of Manhattan, Thomas 
J. Anderson, Chief of the Modocs, Col. U. B. Brown of Concordia, Comrade 
Henry Booth, Past Department Commander of Kansas and Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and Prank Aneal, the Artemus Ward of Kansas. 
Comrade Jas. Tanner was present also. 

Department Commander Collins was the toastmaster of the evening, 
and addresses were made by ex-Governor Anthony, Comrades Tanner and 
Jack Burst of Illinois and others. The musical end of the programme was 
rendered by the famous Modoc Club. 



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The Departure of the President. 

President Harrison left Boston for Washington on the New York 
& New England railroad by special car shortly before midnight, Thursday. 
Governor Brackett and staff and a large number of people were at the 
depot to bid him farewell, and as the train slowly drew out of the station 
he stood on the rear platform and bowed his acknowledgments to the 
cheers that were accorded him. President Harrison had the pleasure of 
being the first President of the United States paying an official visit to 
Boston on a government vessel. The Grand Army of the Republic will 
ever feel grateful to him for his aid in the success of the Encampment by 
lending his official presence to the occasion and for his hearty co-operation 
wherever and whenever possible. 

Wednesday's Festivities. 

Wednesday was the great reunion day, and regiments from nearly every 
state in the Union met in their respective headquarters in annual session. 
Gen. Sherman was given a serenade at the Vendome in the afternoon by 
Ransom Post of Missouri, of which he is a member, and Cambridge gave 
Mrs. Mary A. Logan a royal reception in the evening. 

Reception by the Commonwealth- 



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At noon the Commonwealth authorities received and entertained the 
visiting governors of the various states at the Vendome. Secretary Noble 
represented the National Government. Among those present were Governor 
Brackett and full staff and Lieutenant-Governor Haile, Governor Burleigh 
if Maine, Governor Dillingham and Lieutenant-Governor U. A. Woodbury 
of Vermont, Governor Hovey of Indiana, Governor Thayer of Nebraska, 
Mayor Hart, Collector Beard, Attorney-General Waterman, Gen. McGinness 
of Indiana, Maj. Fred G King of the first Regiment, Governor Bulkelev 
of Connecticut, Speaker Barrett of the Massachusetts legislature, Gen. 

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Banks, Postmaster Corse and several members of the state senate and 
house, including Messrs. Donovan of Boston, Barnes of Chelsea and Maccabe 
of East Boston. Of Governor Dillingham's staff these gentlemen were 
presented to Governor Brackett : Quartermaster W. H. Gilmore, Adjt-Gen. 
T. S. Peck, Cols. C. S. Forbes, H. E. Taylor, L. C. Levens and R. J. 
Campbell. There were present also from the Maple Sugar State : Auditor 
E. H. Powell, Collector G. G. Benedict, Department-Commander Z. M. 
Mansur of Island Pond and Maj. L. G. Kingsley. The only Rhode Island 
representative present was Quartermaster-Gen. John Dennis. Of Governor 
Burleigh's party there were: Lieutenant-Governor Chase, Cols. W. B. 
Roberts, M. G. McLean, Gil Stormount, C. H. Travis, E. F. Efferman and 
Charles H. Meyers. Of Governor Bulkeley's company there were : Adjt.- 
Gen. Embler, Quartermaster-Gen. W. F. Rood, Commissary-Gen. E. S. Bass, 
Paymaster-Gen. Wallace D. Fenn, and Cols. William B. Skinner, John Y. 
Fairman and E. A. Bulkeley, the last named a nephew of the governor. 

The Maine Veteran ^Association. 



Another important reunion was that given by the Maine Veteran 
Association in Mechanics Hall, during the afternoon. The occasion was 
purely informal, and therefore greatly appreciated by the veterans of the 
Pine Tree State. Many distinguished guests were present. Among the 
most interesting features was the singing of two original songs to patriotic 
tunes, composed by " Father Locke," the famous army song writer and 
balladist. Although seventy-three years of age, he sang with vigor and 
spirit, and was enthusiastically cheered. The addresses were made by the 
venerable Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, Rev. W. W. Hayward, Chaplain of the 
famous Neal Dow regiment, Governor Burleigh, Capt. J. H. Roberts, Lieut. 
Shaw, Gen. Cilley and Brevet Brig.-Gen. A. B. Spurling. 

The Naval Veterans' Convention. 

The annual convention of the National Association of Naval Veterans 
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organizations were there : Farragut Association of Naval Veterans, Cincin- 
nati, Ohio; Farragut Association of Providence, R. I.; Naval Association, 
Chicago, 111. ; Falls City Naval Association, Louisville, Ky. ; Gulf Naval 
Veteran Association, New Orleans, La. ; Hartford Association of Naval 
Veterans, Hartford, Conn. ; Essex Association, Lawrence, Mass. Minnesota 
Association, St. Paul, Minn. ; California Naval Legion, San Francisco, Cal. ; 
dishing Association, Milwaukee, Wis.; Potomac Naval Veteran Association, 
Washington, D. C. ; Kansas Association, Kansas City, Mo. ; Dupont Associa- 
tion, Dayton, Ohio. 

The annual report of the paymaster showed that $196.75 had been 
received from assessments, contributions and charters ; and the expenditures, 
$181.60. 

Resolutions were adopted requesting Congress to provide for the strict 
enforcement of a law to compel all steamboat companies to carry a sufficient 
number of competent seamen to assure the safety of life and property on 
the inland lakes. 

The election of officers resulted as follows : Commodore, William S. 
Wells of New Haven, Conn. ; Captain, B. S. Osborne of New York City ; 
Commander, E. J. McMahon of New Orleans ; Lieutenant, Judge Edward J. 
Tyrrell of Cincinnati, Ohio ; Second Lieutenant, John Driscoll of Milwaukee, 
Wis. ; Chaplain, Rev. Robert Edwards of New York City ; Paymaster, John 
F. Mackie; Surgeon, Dr. Lorenzo Traver of Providence, R. I. The conven- 
tion then adjourned for one year, the next annual meeting to be held at 
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IE of the events of the Boston Encampment was the 
reception extended to Mrs. Logan by Mr. and Mrs. 
D. Lothrop at their charming country residence, 
"The Wayside," Hawthorne's old home at Concord. 
The reception was held on the lawn, and a large 
number of guests were present. 

Hon. John D. Long presided, and delivered a 

brief felicitous address, and remarks were also made 

by other well-known speakers. One of the most interesting features of 

the entertainment was the following note and poem, written in honor of 

Mrs. Logan, by the Quaker poet, John Greenleaf Whittier: — 



Eliot, Me., Aug. i, 1S90. 

Dear Mr. Lothrop : It would give me great pleasure to accept thy kind 
invitation to meet at your "Wayside" Mrs. Logan, a lady for whom I have 
the highest respect, not .only as regard for herself personally, but as the life 
companion of a brave and noble man, whose memory will be kept green forever 
in the American heart. 

I cannot be with you on the 14th, owing to my state of health; but 1 
send some lines which I hope may not seem inappropriate. 

I am, very truly, thy friend, 

John Greenleaf Whittier. 



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Our Country. 

I'R thought of thee is glad with hope, 

Dear country of our love ami prayers! 
Tliv way is down no fatal slope. 
But up to freer sun and airs. 

Tried as by furnace fires, and yet 
P>\ (iod's grace onl\ stronger made; 

In future task-, before thee set 

Thou shalt not lack the old-time aid. 



The fathers sleep, hut men remain 
As true and wise and brave as they ; 

\\'h\ count the loss without the gain — 
The best is that we have today. 

No lack was in thy primal stock. 

No weakling founders builded here: 
Thine were the men of Plymouth Rock, 

The Puritan and Cavalier, 

And they whose firm endurance gained 
The freedom of the souls of men — 

Whose hands, unstained, in peace maintained 
The swordless commonwealth of Peim. 

And thine shall be the power of all 
To do the work that duty bids; 

And make the people's council hall 
As lasting as the pyramids. 

Thy lesson all the world shall learn. 
The nations at thy feet shall sit ; 

Earth's farthest mountain-tops shall burn 
With watch-fires from thine own uplit. 



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Great, without seeking to be great 
By fraud or conquest — rich in gold; 

But richer in the large estate 

Of virtue which thy children hold. 

With peace that comes of purity, 

And strength to simple justice due : 

So owns our loyal dream of thee — 
God of our fathers, make it tine ! 

O Land of Lands ! to thee we give 
Our love, our trust, our service free : 

For thee thy sons shall nobly live, 
Ami at thy need shall die for thee! 



John Greenxea* Wiiittier. 



The L oyal Legion Excursion. 

An excursion was given on the steamer New York to the visiting 
members of the Loyal Legion, at three o'clock in the afternoon, by the 
Massachusetts Commandery. There were a thousand members of the Order, 
with their friends, on board, and a most delightful trip was made down the 
harbor. A landing was made at Fort Warren, where the guests were received 
and shown about by the Commander. The steamer then skirted along the 
Hull shore, past Boston Light, and returned to her moorings at six o'clock. 




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RI DAY was devoted, chiefly, to packing knapsacks prepara- 
tory to making a retreat for home, by the veterans 
who were not booked for one of the various excur- 
sions. It was also a day for reunions and for the 
closing receptions given the Posts quartered outside 
the city. During the afternoon and evening, extra trains were sent out 
from all the railroad stations for the North, South and West. 

The Evolutions of the (N^aval Squadron. 

Although the Encampment was officially closed Friday noon, the real 
ending of Boston's great holiday week was not until the close of Saturday, 
which was given up to excursions and pleasures of every nature. 

The chief event of Friday was the evolutions of the naval squadron 
in the lower harbor. The fleet consisted of the Yorktown, Dolphin, Petrel, 
Kearsarge and the wonderful little torpedo boat Ciishing. 

It was inspiring to witness the naval tactics of the great war ships, to 
see the Cushing move swiftly through the water, and to hear the broad- 
sides fired by the fleet. The steamer New York carried a majority of the 
Grand Army leaders and official guests, and the expressions of delight heard 
on every side would have well repaid the commanders of the cruisers for 
the efforts they were making to please the veterans, could they have been 
heard. As it was, their pleasure was manifested by the sounding of whistles, 
the waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and resonant cheers. 

Thousands of people gathered on the beaches in the hope that they 
might be able to witness the evolutions of the white fleet. At the close of 
the manoeuvres the cruisers steamed away, under orders, to other stations, 
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An Excursion on the New York. 

Another happy closing-clay event was the excursion down the harbor on 
the steamboat New York, tendered to the Grand Army delegates and invited 
guests, which included not only views of the beautiful scenery along the 
shore, but the witnessing of the evolutions of the white fleet. 

An interesting episode of this trip was a discovery of Comrade W. H. 
Beaslee of Ithaca, Mich., who could not help feeling: that he was no stranger 
to the steamer. He hunted up the chief engineer and ascertained that the 
New York was the truce boat in 1864, that carried three lots of exchanged 
prisoners of war from City Point, Va., to Annapolis, Md. Comrade Beaslee 
was one of those exchanged prisoners ; and he pointed out, with great 
enthusiasm, the exact spot on the steamer's deck where he slept. Comrade 
Thomas B. Rodgers, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Department of 
Missouri, who was also on the excursion, was equally demonstrative, as he 
too was one of the exchanged prisoners on board the New York, only with 
a different lot from that of Comrade Beaslee. 

On the return trip, remarks of a felicitous nature were made by 
Comrades Alger, Goodale and others ; and the singing of war songs added 
to the enjoyment of the occasion. 

The Woman's Relief Corps Excursion. 



Members of the Woman's Relief Corps to the number of five hundred, 
representing every state in the Union except Alabama and South Carolina, 
passed their last day in Massachusetts by taking an excursion to Nahant, 
where the beauties of that charming resort were enjoyed until three o'clock, 
when carriages were taken for Lynn, where a reception was tendered the 
visitors in the hall of Gen. Lander Post 5, by the Relief Corps of that 
Post. 

Addresses were made by Mrs. Mudgett, Mrs. Parker, Mrs. McHenry, 
Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Wittenmyer, Comrade Barker, Comrade Van Der Voort 
and others, after which there was a banquet and more speech-making. The 
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The Encampment was replete with incidents both amusing and pathetic, 
which, owing to the great mass of features crowding one on another in 
such rapidity, were lost sight of for the time being, but will ever be 
rehearsed by the veterans under whose notice they occurred. 

It is estimated that there were about three thousand five hundred 
fakirs about the city during the week. In the disposal of permits for booths 
on Boston Common, Mayor Hart invariably gave the preference to Grand 
Army veterans, an act of kindness which will be remembered. 

In many cases it was an easy matter to ascertain from what state the 
veterans hailed. For instance : The Maine boys wore a pine cone on the 
lapel of their coats, the Texas veterans a tuft of cotton, anil the Con- 
necticut delegation a wooden nutmeg. 

G. W. Sutherland of Clintonville, Wis., who, in a trapper's garb, carried 
the live badger with the Wisconsin delegation, organized the only Indian 
Post in the world, which now numbers forty-five men. It is known as the 
Keshona Post. 

A pathetic incident was the return of the Bible oi Richard Thurston, 
15th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, who was killed at the battle 
of Fredericksburg, to his aged mother, at Leominster, Mass. A Confederate 
soldier picked up the Bible on the battlefield, and in the winter of 1S89 gave 
it to Post 4 of Baltimore, Md. That Post learned, through Adjutant-General 
Ualton, that Mrs. Thurston was still alive, and brought the precious book 
with them to the Encampment and presented it to the rightful owner. 

Comrade Josiah G. Fuller of Post 66, Medford, met with a very peculiar 
incident during the Encampment. 

He was one of the little band of Abolitionists who went to Kansas in 
1854 for the avowed purpose of freeing that state from the blight of slavery. 
He passed through many thrilling experiences during the exciting days of 
" Bleeding Kansas," and two years later was cast into prison at Lecompton, 
as a result of refusing to assist in the enforcement of the fugitive slave 
law at Lawrence. One night, while in confinement at the court house, 
which served as a prison, six ruffians, who were playing cards in the room, 
learned that he was an " Abolitionist preacher," and hung him to the rafters. 

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He was left for dead on the floor, but was awakened to consciousness by 
the kicks of his jailor. As one hanging was considered sufficient, Mr. 
Fuller was allowed to depart, which lie lost no time in doing. But he was 
heard from again as a Union soldier, and did good service during the war. 

At the Encampment in Boston, Comrade Fuller received an invitation 
to join in the Grand Army delegates' excursion down the harbor; but he 
arrived at the wharf just as the steamer had left her moorings. Observing 
two colored men on the wharf, he approached them, and seeing by the 
little brown button they wore that they were Grand Army boys, he engaged 
them in conversation. What was Mr. Fuller's surprise when he learned 
that one of these comrades was an attendant at his church while preaching 
at Boonsville, Mo., in 1S50, and also that the man was one of the slaves 
whom he helped to set free in 1862. The scene was a touching one as 
they indulged in reminiscences of the past, and will never be forgotten by 
the two veterans. Comrade Fuller is now seventy-three years of age ; but 
notwithstanding his more than three score and ten years, he marched with 
his Post during the entire parade. 

The evening trains were crowded with departing veterans and ladies of 
the Relief Corps. At midnight nearly all were homeward bound, the sound 
of martial music had ceased, and the greatest Encampment ever known in 
the history of the Grand Army of the Republic was at an end. 




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Pertaining to 1890 Encampment- 




Geo. II. Hopkins 



HE following General Orders were issued from the head- 
quarters at Detroit, in connection with the Twenty-fourth 
National Encampment : — 



General Orders, "I 
No. 7. J 

Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, 
Detroit. Mich., Dec. 3, 1SS9. 

The time for holding the Twenty-fourth National Encampment at 

Boston, Mass., has been fixed for the second week in August, beginning 
with the parade on Tuesday, Aug. 12. 

By order of 

R. A. AI.GER, 



Adjutant- General. 



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\ander-in-Chief. 



Ge neral ( Ieders, 1 

No. 17. 1 



Headquarters Graxd Army of the Republic, 
Detroit, Mich., July 19, 1S90. 



I. The Commander-in-Chief hereby announces that the parade of the Grand Army 
of the Republic, at the Twenty-fourth National Encampment, will take place at Boston, on 
Tuesday, Aug. 12, 1S90. 

II. The headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief will be established at the Hotel 
Vendome on Commonwealth avenue, at 9 a.m., at which hour all Departments will form 
in their designated positions, and the column will move at 10.30 a.m.. oyer the following 
route: Commonwealth avenue (south side) to Arlington street; thence via Boylston 
street. Huntington avenue, Dartmouth street, Columbus avenue. West Chester Park and 
square (south side), Washington street. Hanover street, and dismiss corner of Washington 
and Hanover streets. 



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III. Tlie formation of the line will be in the park on Commonwealth avenue, the 
right resting at the corner of West Chester Park (south side) and extending to Arlington 
street. Departments will take positions in line in order of seniority of date of charter, and 
form in single rank, platoons of twelve files front, closed en masse. Detailed order will be 
issued later from these headquarters, giving exact position of each Department, which will 
be designated by Mags. 

IV. Department Commanders will at once report to these headquarters the approxi- 
mate number of men who will be present from their respective Departments. 

V. Department Commanders and stall's will be mounted, if possible. Mounted 
Posts will parade with their own Departments, their places of rendezvous to be designated 
hereafter, but at places where they can fall in in their proper places in the column. 

VI. Organizations other than the Grand Army of the Republic will follow the Grand 
Armv of the Republic in the following order: All associations of naval veterans, regi- 
mental and other military associations, Camps of Sons of Veterans. 

VII. All Naval Associations will form on Arlington street, and extending south. 
Regimental and other military associations will form on the left of the naval associations. 
Sons of Veterans will form on Marlboro street, right resting on Arlington street and 
extending south. 

VIII. Carriages with crippled veterans will form on Beacon street, in double line on 
street curbs, right resting on Arlington street and extending south, and will move into 
position on the left of the column of the Grand Army of the Republic. 

IX. Each Department will parade as a division under command of its Department 
Commander. Naval associations will parade as a division under a Commander to be desig- 
nated by the Commander-in-Chief in later orders. Regimental and other military associations 
will parade as a division under similar orders. Sons of Veterans will form as a division 
under command of the ranking officer of their Order present. Column of crippled veterans 
in carriages will be in charge of an officer, who will be designated by the Commander-in- 
Chief in later orders. 

X. The Massachusetts Department, being the entertaining Department, will take 
position on the left of the column of the Departments of the Grand Army of the Republic. 

XI. The Encampment will assemble at Music Hall, Winter street, Wednesday, at 

10 A.M. 

By order of 

R. A. ALGER, 

Geo. H. Hopkins. Commander-in-Chief. 

Adjutant-General. 

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( ii mi; m Orders, i 
No. 18. [ 



Headquarters Grand Army >>i tih Rj public, 
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 2, 1890. 



[n compliance with General Orders No. 17, the positions of the various Departments 
in the parade on Tuesday, Aug. 12. will be as follows: From right to left, forming ac- 
cording to date of permanent organization, as shown herewith, with the exception of 
Massachusetts, which will take left of the Grand Army of the Republic division. 



Department. 

Illinois- 
Wisconsin 

Pennsylvania 

Ohio 

New York 

Connecticut 

New Jersey 

Maine 

California 

Rhode Island 

New Ilampshii 

Vermont . 

Potomac 

Virginia 

Maryland 

Nebraska . 

Michigan . 

Iowa 

Indiana 
^Colorado and Wyoming 

Kansas 

Delaware . 

Minnesota 

Missouri . 

Oregon 

Kentucky 

West Virginia 
tSouth Dakota 

Washington ami Alaska 

Arkansas . 



'permanent organization. 
July 12. 1S66. 

Sept. 7, 1866. 
Ian. 16. 1867. 
Jan. 30, 1N67. 
April 3, 1S67. 
April 11, 1S67. 
Dec. 10. 1867. 
Jan. 10, 186S. 
Feb. 20. 1S6S. 
March 24, 1SO8. 
April 30, 1S6S. 
Oct. 2^. 186S. 
Feb. 11. 1869. 
1S71. 
Jan. 9, 1S76. 
June 11, 1S77. 
Jan. 22, 1S70. 
Jan. 23. iS7 V . 
Oct. 3. 1879. 
Dec. 11, iS7y. 
March 16, 1S80. 
Jan. 14. 1SS1. 
Aug. 17. 1SS1. 
April 22. 1SS2. 
Sept. 2S, 1SS2. 
Jan. 17, 1SS3. 
Feb. 20, 1SS3. 
Feb. 27. 1SS3. 
June 20, 1SS3. 
July 11, 1S83. 



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New Mexico .... 

Utah 

. Tennessee .... 

{Louisiana and Mississippi 

Florida ..... 

Texas ..... 

Montana ..... 

Idaho ..... 

Arizona . 

Georgia ..... 

Alabama ..... 

North Dakota .... 

Indian Territory and Oklahoma 

Massachusetts .... 



Date of permanent organization. 
July 14, 1S83. 
Oct. 19. 1SS3. 
Feb. 26, 1S84. 
May 15, 1884. 
June 19, 1SS4. 
March 25, 1885. 
March 25, 1S86. 
Sept. 1, 1S87. 
Sept. 10, 1887. 
Jan. 25, iSSy. 
March 12, iSSy. 
April 23, 1S90. 
Aug. 7, iSyo. 
May 7. 1S67. 



*As Department of the Mountains; name changed to Colorado, July 31, 1S82 ; name 
changed to Colorado and Wyoming, Aug. 28, 1SS6. 

t As Department of Dakota ; name changed to South Dakota, April 11, iSyo. 

I As Department of the Gulf; name changed to Louisiana and Mississippi, June 13, iSSS. 

in issuing this order the Commander-in-Chief does not intend to prejudice the rights of 
any Department in its claims for seniority, but follows the records as found in the Adjutant- 
General's office and given above. 

By order of 

R. A. ALGER, 
Geo. H. Hoi-kins, Commander-in-Chief. 

Aa 'jntant- General. 



General Orders, ] 
No. iy. 1 



Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, 
Boston, Mass., Aug. 11, 1S90. 



I. Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic are hereby established at Hotel Yen- 
dome, Room 10, where all Department Commanders will report, either in person or by 
staff officer, immediately on arrival in Boston. 

II. Department Commanders will obtain at these headquarters a map showing the 
position of each Department in the formation of the column for parade on Commonwealth 
avenue. Coming into position on Commonwealth avenue, they will move on street* parallel 



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to it until nearly opposite their proper places. They will have their respective commands 
in position at 9.30 a.m., Aug. 12, without further instructions. In order to do this with- 
out friction or blockade, Department Commanders should at once make themselves familiar 
with the formation of column, and personally visit the localities designated and the ap- 
proaches to the same. 

III. All Departments will lake their positions on the north side of Commonwealth 
avenue, which will he indicated by a white flag hearing the name of the Department, and 
he posted where the left of the Department will rest. The right of each Department will 
he indicated by a red flag similarly inscribed, and will ho posted on the south side of Com- 
monwealth avenue. 

IV. Platoons, when forming previous to the march, will be closed en masse on the 
lanes lacing south. 

V. Between Departments, sixty feet; between Posts, twenty feet. Comrades will 
march in platoons of twelve, single rank, with intervals of eight feet. 

VI. The column will march guide left, except when approaching the reviewing stands 
the guides will be changed to right, and when within six paces thereof the commanding 
officers of Departments and Posts will salute. 

VII. The Presidential reviewing stand will be located at Copley square, and will be 
designated by the National colors and the President's flag. 

VIII. The Commander-in-Chief will review the column at Adams square. 
IX. Alter passing the Commander-in-Chief in review. Departments will march under 
the grand arch and he dismissed, taking streets which will enable them so to do most 
expeditiously and without blocking the column in rear. 

By order of 

R. A. ALGER, 
Geo. II. Hopkins, Commander-in-Chief. 

. \djutant- General. 




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RICHARD F. TOBIN, 

Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief, 
Grand Army of the Republic, 1890. 
Department Commander Massachusetts, 



Of Executive Committee. 



]n QUemoriam. 



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i|Tl> HE Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army 
of the Republic, Richard F. Tobin, died at his 
home in South Boston, Saturday, Nov. 22, 1890, at 
4. 1 5 o'clock in the morning. The cause of his death 
was nervous prostration, brought on by overwork, 
and valvular trouble of the heart, complicated with 
Brieht's disease. The news of the death of "Dick" 
Tobin, as he was familiarly known, cast a gloom not 
only over the city of Boston, but among his vast 
number of friends both in and outside the ranks 
of the Grand Army. For several months it was known to many that 
Comrade Tobin was by no means a well man. He had been repeatedly 
advised to take a rest ; but his invariable answer was that he could not be 
happy unless he was busy. 

During the Encampment he labored day and night, and no small share 
of its success is attributable to his indefatigable work toward that end. He 
was a member of the executive committee and chairman of the committee 
on decorations. His co-laborers will remember his pale face at the 
Encampment headquarters on Beacon street, how it would light up with 
enthusiasm as he unfolded plan after plan which would add to the enjoyment 
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Immediately after the Encampment, Comrade Tobin, acting upon the 
advice of his physician, made a visit to Vermont ; but the air there being 
too bracing for his constitution, he was forced to return after a few days. 
Early in October he took to his bed. Day by day he grew weaker, anil his 
life slowly ebbed away. He bore his illness with that fortitude and patience 
which always characterized his life, and apparently did not realize that his 
end was near. At four o'clock on the morning of the day of his death he 
seemingly dropped into a doze. His wife spoke to him, but received no 
response. His children were immediately summoned to the bedside: and 
then, surrounded by those whom he most loved in life, he passed away. 



His Eventful Career. 

Richard F. Tobin was born in Boston, Nov. 20, 1844. At the early 
age of seventeen he mastered the iron moulder's trade, which he carried 
on in his after life, with the exception of the period of his war service 
and while holding official positions. He was but a boy when the war 
broke out. When the call for three months' men was issued, a company 
was formed in Cambridge and ordered to report at Faneuil Hall. Tobin 
left his work one afternoon and attempted to enter the hall, but was refused 
admittance; and it was only by a wonderful display of youthful strategy that 
he succeeded in his purpose. It was not five minutes after he entered the 
hall before he was an enlisted man in the United States service. 

Young Tobin was doomed to disappointment, however, as within 
twenty-four hours his company was disbanded and he was ordered home. 
Although under age, he managed to enlist in the navy, and was assigned 
to duty on board the sloop Preble. After the destruction of that vessel, he 
was transferred to the frigate Potomac, and afterwards to the gunboat 
Pinola, all of which rendered effective service under Admiral Farragut, in 
the West Gulf squadron. 

Tobin filled many offices of trust and honor. He was assistant engineer 
of the Cambridge fire department and a member of the Cambridge city 



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council. In 1884 he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature as a 
Republican. He failed to secure a Republican renomination, but ran as an 
Independent candidate, and was elected. While a representative he favored 
and worked for the soldiers' exemption bill and other measures for the 
benefit of the veterans. 

Comrade Tobin joined Post 7 of Boston about twelve years previous to 
his death, but was transferred to Post 30 of Cambridge shortly after, in 
which he was an active and interested worker. The following year he 
transferred his membership to Dahlgren Post 2 of South Boston ; and he 
was a member of that Post at the time of his death. 

In 1886 he was chosen Commander of the Department of Massachusetts, 
Grand Army of the Republic, and at the Boston Encampment of 1890 he 
was elected Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief. 

In 1S87 he was appointed one of the fire commissioners of Boston, a 
position which he held at the time of his death. He was an active and 
hard worker in everything with which he was connected, and was successful 
in all. He left a widow and seven children. 



( General Orders Issued. 

The following General Orders were issued immediately after Comrade 
Tobin's death: — 



GEiNERAL Orders. "| 

>j ,, f Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, 

Rutland, Vt., Nov. 12, 1S90. 

I. It is the sad duty of the Commander-in-Chief to announce that Comrade Richard 
F. Tobin, Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief, elected at the Twenty-fourth National Encamp- 
ment at Boston, in August last, died at his home in South Boston this morning, passing 



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away from this world of shadows before daybreak to the land of cloudless skies and never- 
ending day : "For there shall be no night there." 

A gallant young sailor in the navy under Farragut; an able and accomplished official 
of his native state and city; a worthy comrade from his entry as a recruit; a distinguished 
Commander of his Department in i3S6, and fitly chosen to the high office from which he 
has been mustered out by death, Comrade Tobin was universally and justly loved, trusted 
and honored, and his record will be a lair and spotless escutcheon to all coming time. 
Brave, true, loyal and sincere, we all mourn his death. Born Nov. 20, 1S44, he was vet 
young for his final bell to strike, to bid farewell to shipmate and comrade. 

II. As a mark of respect to his memory, all National, Department and Post officers 
will, for thirty days after the receipt of this order, when on duty, wear the usual badge of 
mourning upon the left arm — black crape five inches wide, and a knot of the same material 
upon the sword hilt: all colors of the Order will be draped in mourning for a like period 
by attaching, with black ribbon, two streamers of black crape, six inches wide and four feet 
long, to the ferrule upon the lance below the spear-head. Departments or Posts having 
stall colors will display them at half mast on the day succeeding the receipt of this order. 

By command of 

W. G. Veazev. 

J. II. Goulding, Commander-in-Chief. 

A djuta tit- General. 

Tributes of the City of Boston. 

Mayor's Office, 

Boston. Nov. 22. 1S90. 

Gentlemen: Richard F. Tobin, Fire Commissioner, died at his home in South Boston 
this morning. You are requested to meet in your respective chambers in City Hall, on 
Monday, Nov. 24, at noon, to take such action as may be appropriate. Commissioner 
Tobin has been in office since May, 1SS7, giving all the services that loyalty, integrity and 
special training and the deepest interest in his calling could possibly render. Commissioner 
Tobin held the second highest position in the Grand Army of the Republic, and was an 
honor both to the Grand Army and to the city of Boston. 

Respectfully yours, 

Thomas N. Hart. 

Mayor. 

Both branches of the Boston city council met in special session on 
Monday, Nov. 24, and passed resolutions on Commissioner Tobin's death, 



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and appointed a special committee to attend the funeral services. The 
Board of Fire Commissioners also met to take action on the death of their 
co-laborer, and issued a general order instructing that all houses of the 
department be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days, and appointed 
members of the department to attend the funeral. 

'Tributes of the Executive Committee of the Encampment. 

The Executive Committee of the National Encampment, Grand Army 
of the Republic, for 1890, met in room D, State House, Boston, Monday 
afternoon, November 25. Chairman Goodale opened the meeting by formally 
announcing the death of Comrade Tobin and delivering a touching eulogy 
on the noble characteristics of the deceased. 

Comrade John H. Cook next addressed the meeting, and submitted the 
following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted by a rising vote: — 

The Executive Committee of the National Encampment of the Grand Army ot the 
Republic for 1890, at a special meeting called for that purpose, express their sorrow and a 
profound sense of the loss they have sustained by the death of their associate and co- 
laborer, Richard F. Tobin. 

It also desires to put on record its appreciation of the high qualities which character- 
ized him both as an officer and as a man. 

He brought to this committee unstinted energy, tireless industry, honest purposes, and 
a thorough, ceaseless and conscientious devotion; and we declare that to him as much as 
any individual was due the success so honorable to the commonwealth, the city of Boston 
and the Grand Army of the Republic of this Department. 

We bring to his memory our tribute of respect and affection. His generous heart, his 
open hand, his eloquent voice, his merry humor, his gentleness, his quick sympathy, his 
fidelity to his sense of duty, his absolute integrity, formed a character which will remain 
with us — not a memory alone, but an inspiration. 

We tender to his family our sympathy, and as a mark of esteem and affection will 
attend his funeral in a body. 

Ordered, That the foregoing be recorded in the history of the Encampment of 1890, 
now in course of compilation by the assistant secretary. 



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Eloquent tributes were also paid to his memory by Comrade W. W. 
Blackmar and Charles Carleton Coffin. 

It was voted to semi a floral offering to the funeral, and that the 
committee report at the Department headquarters on the following Wednes- 
day morning, and from that point take carriages for the cathedral, where 
the services were to be held. Chairman Goodale haying been appointed as 
one of the pall-bearers, it was decided that ex-Governor Long should head 
the committee and that the members should wear the executive committee 
badges, draped in mourning. 

The Department of Massachusetts, Woman's Relief Corps, also passed 
appropriate resolutions deploring the death of Comrade Tobin, and requesting 
that the charters of the Corps be draped in mourning for thirty days as a 
tribute of love and respect to the memory of the gallant sailor hero. 

The Funeral Services. 



The funeral services were held at the cathedral, Wednesday morning, 
Nov. 26. At nine o'clock the sad procession left the late home of Comrade 
Tobin for the church, accompanied by the members of the three Posts 
with which the deceased was at one time connected, the Kearsarge Naval 
Veterans, Chief Webber of the fire department and one hundred firemen, 
employees of the Walworth Manufacturing Company, where Comrade Tobin 
was engaged for a number of years, Department Commander Innis, the 
honorary pall-bearers, body-bearers and bands. 

The church was crowded with distinguished mourners. The Grand Army 
was represented by Commander-in-Chief Wheelock G. Veazey and several 
of his staff, Department Commanders Clarkson of New York, Anderson of 
Maine, Lewis of Delaware, Davis of Rhode Island, Urell of Potomac, and 
staffs, Comrade Kirker of the National Council, Grand Army officials from 
Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Connecticut and many other states, Massa- 
chusetts Posts, naval organizations, the Executive Committee of the National 
Encampment of 1890 and members of the Massachusetts W. R. C. 



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There were also present representatives of Gov. Brackett, the state and 
city governments, police and other city departments, temperance societies 
and many other organizations. 

The floral tributes were probably the most beautiful ever seen in Boston. 
They were the loving offerings of comrades ami friends from all over the 
country, and consisted of huge broken columns, symbolical designs of the 
Grand Army and every variety of set pieces. 

The services comprised a solemn requiem mass for the dead, the clergy- 
men from the Gate of Heaven church officiating. The music was a Grego- 
rian chant rendered by fifty male singers. Rev. Robert Johnson, pastor of 
the Gate of Heaven church, delivered the sermon. 

The services at the cemetery were brief, consisting of the reading of 
the Catholic burial service by Rev. Father Merritt and the Grand Army of 
the Republic services by Commander Drown and officers of Dahlgren 
Post 2. 

The body was then lowered into the grave, and the earth covered from 
human sight the casket containing the mortal remains of beloved Comrade 
Tobin. 

'•Once more a common sorrow saith, 
' A strong, true man has died.' 

" So let the mourning bells be rung, 

The banner droop its folds halt way ; 
And let the public pen and tongue 
Their fitting tribute pay." 




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LORY and honor and lame and everlasting laudation 

For our captains who loved not war, hut fought for the life 

of the Nation ; 
Who knew that, in all the land, one slave meant strife, not 

peace : 
Who fought for freedom, not glory — made war that war 

might cease. 

Glor\ and honor and fame — the heating of muffled drums: 
The wailing funeral dirge, as the flag-wrapped coffin comes. 
fame and honor and glory, and joy for a noble soul — 
For a full and splendid life, and laureled rest at the goal. 

Glory and honor and fame — the pomp that a soldier prizes; 
The league-long waving line as the marching falls and rises; 
Rumbling of caissons and guns, the clatter of horses' feet, 
Ami a million awe-struck laces far down the waiting street. 

But better than martial woe and the pageant of civic sorrow. 
Better than praise of today or the statue we build tomorrow. 
Heller than honor and glory, and history's iron pen, 
Is the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. 

—Br Comrade % W. Gilder, of Lafayette Post 140, G.^.R., New York, 

Editor of the " Century." 



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Received. 

From the State of Massachusetts, net ...... 

" " City of Boston ........ 

" " citizens of Boston, outright gifts ..... 

" " " " " 40 % of sums guaranteed . 

From sundry sources, such as interest on deposits, rent of office, 
sale office furniture, stationery, etc. ..... 



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:IE meeting for the purpose of winding up the 
affairs of the committee took place at the State 
House, Tuesday, July 28, 1891. 

There were present the following members: — 
Messrs. Goodale, Barton, Merrill, Innis, Meech, 
Hall, Rohan, Wallace, Cook, King, Brownell and 
Walker. 

The important business transacted was as 
follows : — 
The work of the committee appointed to compile the " Unofficial Pro- 
ceedings " and the "Souvenir" was further reported upon, and was approved 
as a report of progress, and they were authorized to complete the work. 

With reference to the disposition of the funds of the Encampment, it 
was voted that the balance remaining in the treasury, after the payment of 
the expenses incurred in publishing and delivering the "Unofficial Proceed- 
ings" and "Souvenir" and other debts, if any, be turned over to the trus- 
tees of the Massachusetts Soldiers' Home in Chelsea as a donation to that 
institution. 

A large framed photograph of Past Commander-in-Chief Charles Devens, 
which had been prepared by the Souvenir committee for use in connection 
with the "Souvenir," was also donated to the Soldiers' Home. 

The secretary was authorized to place the documents and books of 
record of the executive and auxiliary committees in a fire-proof vault 
under seal for safe keeping until finally disposed of. 

A committee was selected, consisting of Chairman Goodale, Secretary 
Barton and Fred G. King, to devise and present a plan for a permanent 
organization of the executive committee for social purposes. 

Chairman Goodale, Treasurer Converse, Secretary Barton, with George S. 
Merrill, were appointed a committee to prepare and issue to the public 
a financial statement of the doings of this committee. 



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The following resolutions, complimentary to Chairman Goodale, were 
offered by John H. Cook, and were passed unanimously by a rising vote: — 

The Executive Committee of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the 
Republic desires, as its last official act, to acknowledge the services of its chairman, 
Mr. George L. Goodale. 

lie was identified with the enterprise from its inception to its close. In the Convention 
at Milwaukee he presented and eloquently advocated the claims of Boston to the honor of 
being selected as the place for holding the Encampment of 1890; he was foremost in 
selecting and organizing the General Committee; and throughout a period covering a year 
he faithfully devoted time and energy to promote and secure its success. 

To him, as much as to any individual, the credit of the highly gratifying results 
achieved should be attributed. 

lie has administered the office of chairman of this committee with the utmost fairness 
and entirely without selfishness or prejudice; and during his entire service in behalf of the 
Encampment he has manifested only those traits of character most likely to bring about 
the ends desired, and at the same time to maintain the honor and add to the glory of the 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

After congratulatory addresses of the members, in review of the work 
accomplished, the duties of the committee were declared fulfilled, and the 
meeting was adjourned sine die. 

The Executive Committee wish to extend their hearty thanks and appre- 
ciation for the valuable aid furnished by the ladies and gentlemen not on 
the membership rolls of the various committees. The Souvenir Committee 
has endeavored to assist in this very pleasant task throughout the pages of 
this book ; and they hope that no oversights have been made. To the 
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, for the free use of tele- 
phone ; W. C. Ireland, for commodious safe ; and Lawrence, Wilde & Co. and 
Wm. White, for furniture loaned at the Executive Committee headquarters, 
the thanks of the Committee are specially clue. 



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Grand Army of the Republic 
National Encampments . 
First Steps Taken . 
Executive Committee 
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Disabled Veterans 
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Grand Camp-fire, G. A. R. 
Banquet to Encampment Delegates 
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Camp-i-ire of the W. R. C. 
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
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Richard F. Tobin 

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